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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 [More…]
Following on from the focus on Primark’s ethical standards over the past couple of weeks, Tesco’s AGM today has meant attention has now turned to the supermarket’s commitment to ethical trade, with pressure being brought to bear on the retailer from several different directions.
Perhaps the most high profile Tesco critic of recent weeks is [More…]
Following the news stories last week and speculation in the Ethical Trading community, the BBC is set to show its investigation into the ethical standards of Primark’s supply chain this Monday at 9pm. A potentially controversial trailer is available on YouTube:
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Primark has again attracted the attention of the ethical trading community today after the company’s announcement that it is severing ties with 3 suppliers because of child labour found in their supply chains. Information on the labour standards of some suppliers, gained during the filming of the BBC’s Panorama series, was passed on to the [More…]
Last night we saw the final instalment of Blood Sweat and T-shirts, the BBC3 reality TV show about the garment industry in India. We have been fairly critical of the show in previous weeks since it has seemed to focus on the Brit’s shock at their living conditions, but last night’s episode managed to [More…]