Workers' conditions in the textile and clothing sector: just an Asian affair? Issues at stake after the Rana Plaza tragedy
Briefing
15-08-2014
More than 70% of EU imports of textile and clothing come from Asia. Many Asian workers have to work in sweatshop conditions, but the issue appears in global media only when major fatal accidents occur, like that at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, in 2013. Long working hours, low wages, lack of regular contracts, and systemically hazardous conditions are often reported. Trade unions, when allowed, are unable to protect workers.
Briefing
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- Asia
- Asia and Oceania
- audit
- BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
- business classification
- business organisation
- common commercial policy
- corporate social responsibility
- EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
- generalised preferences
- GEOGRAPHY
- human rights
- INDUSTRY
- international affairs
- international convention
- international labour law
- international law
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- labour inspectorate
- labour law and labour relations
- LAW
- leather and textile industries
- management
- multinational enterprise
- organisation of work and working conditions
- rights and freedoms
- textile industry
- TRADE
- trade policy
- trade union freedom
- working conditions