The Dark Side of Bangladesh's Garment Industry | Real Stories Full-Length Documentary

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/jRdAwA79f9DRAmzBTLMRP4

Re: garment industry workers organizing in the wake of sexual violence and murder of a co-worker, how women worker organizing can lead to big changes in working conditions, but they don't matter as much as they could when the factory is struggling to get enough orders... the age old story of union shops having a hard time getting contracts and international brands that don't care about the people on the production line, especially when it's women in the global south. How sometimes organizing can have wins that make a big difference but then you get laid off and end up at another shop that is worse...

“There are lots of brands that will not source from a factory where there’s a collective bargaining agreement or a labour management agreement because they think that’s not a good thing [for business],” he says. “Somebody will say: ‘Oh, they can go on strike any time.’”

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/14/justice-for-jeyasre-how-a-brutal-led-to-a-better-deal-for-garment-workers-in-india

#sewing #garmentindustry #labourrights

@tansy
Thank you, as always, for educating us on things we barely have any conception of in the rich North! What an important talk. And also, you got quite the celebrity's intro!
#GarmentIndustry #Workers #Bangladesh

Tansy Hoskins (Journalist and writer on the international garment industry) - video Dailymotion
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9i9314

This is the latest Local History post from our library here in Rochester NY.

https://rochistory.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/a-teenage-tragedy-the-life-of-ida-braiman/

In 1913, Ida Braiman, a teenage garment worker, was killed during a demonstration to organize workers. This article tells her story.

During the 1910's, the garment industry became one of the leading centers of the workers' unionization movement. The Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence Massachussets, the Uprising of Twenty Thousand in New York City, and other large strikes of garment workers brought attention to the demands of the workers.

Here in Rochester, the garment industry was a huge employer. My grandpa was born in 1913, and had multiple relatives in the Rochester garment business. Grandpa's mother worked as a seamstress in the tailor shops, while his father was a cutter. (Cutters were considered a more skilled job. They were paid more, and they were almost all men).

In the 1930's and 1940's, after unionization, Grandpa's sisters' generation enjoyed much better conditions than Ida Braiman's earlier generation had known. Grandma once told me that jobs in the tailor shops kept a lot of people employed during the Depression, because with so many different shops in town, you could just move from one to another as this one or that one was hiring or laying off.

Our local PBS station made a documentary about the Rochester garment industry, "Tailor Made", tracing the history to our own day.

https://www.pbs.org/video/wxxi-documentaries-tailor-made-story-rochesters-garment-industry/

#GarmentIndustry #LaborHistory #RochesterNY

🧵 $48 BILLION in textile exports by 2025 - Vietnam's aiming high! 🧵
What do you think are the biggest opportunities and challenges for the industry to reach this goal?
Share your thoughts in the comments!
#VietnamTextiles #GarmentIndustry #Exports #Economy #SourceVietnam https://t.co/4CBM7dfSZa

— SourceVietnam.com (@sourcevietnam1)
Feb 11, 2025

"The wearing of flowers by garment workers is profoundly misunderstood. It has come under criticism as a sign of ‘financial-illiteracy’ - of frivolous high spending amongst low-waged women who can’t manage their monthly expenses...

...If global fashion brands paid fairly, workers wouldn't need to send their children to pick flowers before school."

https://www.tansyhoskins.org/factory-flowers-beauty-and-survival-in-indias-garment-factories/?ref=tansy-e-hoskins-newsletter

#VictimBlaming #FastFashion #GarmentIndustry #Sweatshops

OnlineFirst - "Precarious labour and social reproduction in Bolivian immigrant sweatshops in São Paulo, Brazil" by Clara Lemme Ribeiro:

#precariouslabour #socialreproduction #immigrantlabour #garmentindustry #Bolivianmigration

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X241254812

There's a fashion book I really like and I'm going to talk to the author about it on WEDNESDAY!

The book: 'Garments without Guilt? Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels' by Professor Kanchana N Ruwanpura.

The date/time: 8 Nov from 12-1.30pm GMT.

The organiser: The South Asia department of The Political Studies Association

Free registration: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/psa-politics-of-south-asia-specialist-group/t-ojqmmqx

#GarmentIndustry #Fashion #SriLanka #WorkersRights