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Network Clothing: Mapping Homeworker Supply Chains
Network Clothing is one of the leading manufacturers of handmade crochet and knitwear garments. Since 1994, the company has supplied leading UK and international retailers. Network Clothing has a network of around 3,000 home workers within its supply chain, around 1,000 of whom are active at any given time. Most of the home workers [...]
Homeworking in the Indian garment industry: what are the issues and how can homeworkers’ lives be improved
Following the Primark news stories and Panorama documentary a couple of weeks ago about the undeclared outsourcing and child labour in the Indian supply chains of Primark, we thought we would write a blog about homeworking and the challenges it represents, particularly in the Indian garment industry.
As we noted before homeworking is endemic in the [...]