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REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
卷 27, 期 2, 页码 320-347出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2019.1625426
关键词
Workers' rights; global supply chains; global value chains; purchasing practices; apparel; garments; Bangladesh; living wages; building safety; Rana Plaza
资金
- Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Bangladesh
Workers' rights violations have been pervasive in many global supply chains. In the apparel sector, production workers often face precarious working conditions, including persistently low pay, excessive and often forced overtime, unsafe buildings, and repression of their right to form unions and bargain collectively. This article explores how purchasing practices of lead firms adversely affect working conditions and workers' rights in supplier factories. It attributes these trends to a price squeeze and a sourcing squeeze in which lead firms pay increasing lower prices to suppliers while also imposing short lead times and high order volatility. To test this argument, trade data of apparel imports to the United States and the European Union are explored. The article then turns to original surveys of Bangladesh supplier factories and workers carried out in 2016 and 2017. The final section of this paper examines the impact of the squeeze on working conditions and workers' rights using the Labour Rights Indicators.
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