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Have Hong Kong garment companies improved their reporting on labour standards?
CSR Asia, 2009This report examines transparency in Hong Kong garment sector supply chain operations to provide an update of their overall performance, and any key developments facing Hong Kong companies.The research covers five categories: governance and risk management code of conduct stakeholder engagementDocumentCashing in: giant retailers, purchasing practices, and working conditions in the garment industry
Clean Clothes Campaign, 2009This report examines the business practices of giant retailers such as Walmart, Tesco, Carrefour, Lidl, and Aldi.DocumentThe sour taste of pineapple: how an expanding export industry undermines workers and their communities
International Labor Rights Forum, 2008Since the 1960’s, pineapple production has quadrupled and export has tripled worldwide. While profits for some have tremendously expanded under such development, this report demonstrates how pineapple workers, their families and communities, and the environment in the largest pineapple producing nations have not enjoyed the benefits of such growth.DocumentBargaining for a living wage
National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2008Since the mid-1990s, the South African labour market has been reshaped to conform to the demands of a modern developing economy, while at the same time responding to the needs of what government characterises as a “developmental state”. This report focuses on South African labour market and the key issues that impact and affect collective bargaining.DocumentThe cocoa protocol: success or failure?
International Labor Rights Forum, 2008This document reviews the outcome of a policy instrument drafted in 2001, the “Protocol for the Growing and Processing of Cocoa Beans and their Derivative Products,” also known as the Harkin-Engel Protocol.DocumentLabour conditions in IKEA's supply chain - case studies in Bangladesh and Vietnam
Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2006This paper presents the findings of a study on the working conditions in IKEA’s suppliers in Bangladesh and Vietnam. It assesses the working conditions in the factories by comparing them with the standards as prescribed in IKEA’s code of conduct for supplier companies. The study covers seven factories – four in Bangladesh and three in Vietnam.DocumentLet’s clean up fashion 2008
Labour Behind the Label, 2008This is the third report in the past three years on the conditions of fashion workers brought out by Labour Behind the Label. The authors say that in three years there has been definite progress, not only in rhetoric but also in the beginnings of tangible work on the ground.DocumentLocalising private social standards: standard initiatives in Kenyan cut flowers
Danish Institute for International Studies, 2008Private Social Standards (PSSs) covering the employment conditions of Southern producers exporting to European markets have multiplied rapidly since the 1990s. Most PSS initiatives have been designed in the North. Lately, however, a range of Southern standard initiatives have emerged in the African horticultural industry.DocumentClearing the hurdles : steps to improving wages and working conditions in the global sportswear industry.
Play Fair 2008 Campaign, 2008Across the global sportswear industry, workers manufacturing sports apparel, footwear and soccer balls face poor working conditions and substantial violation of rights. This report which brought to focus the sports workers’ problems just before the recent Olympics 2008 is based on interviews with sportswear workers in China, India, Thailand and Indonesia, besides various secondary sources.