OUR PUBLICATIONS
Women on the Rise: Gendering the World of Work
The policy brief is a joint publication of Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA), Global Labor Justice (GLJ), and Feminist Alliance for Rights (FAR). This policy brief highlights women’s paid and unpaid labor as the cornerstone of gender equality and specifically addresses GBVH in the world of work. The brief demonstrates the links between ILO C190 and two critical areas of concern within the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: Violence against Women, and Women and the Economy.
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Dindigul Agreement Year 2 Progress Report: 76% of Grievances Resolved Within Two Weeks
In its second year, the Dindigul Agreement has demonstrated significant progress in eliminating gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) at Eastman Exports' Natchi factory. Of the 30 GBVH-related issues (out of 242 total grievances raised), 76% were resolved within two weeks, reflecting the strong collaboration between workers, unions, and management. The Year 2 report highlights the vital role of Freedom of Association (FOA) in improving working conditions and addressing grievances.
Dindigul Agreement: Year One Progress Report | 2023
One year after the signing of the historic Dindigul Agreement, a new report documents how major global fashion companies, a clothing and textile supplier and labor organizations have empowered women garment workers including migrants in India to respond to and eliminate gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) and caste-based discrimination and win more rights in their workplace.
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Towards a Woman-Centred Living Wage Beyond Borders
The Asia Floor Wage (AFW) is a woman-centred, cross-border living wage figure that takes into account the food and non-food costs of an Asian garment worker. In 2022, AFWA released new living wage figures, after surveying 1,686 garment workers from 27 trade unions in seven countries. Here are the detailed results.
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Big Fashion & Wall Street Cash in on Wage Theft
Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA) and Global Labor Justice - International Rights Forum (GLJ-ILRF), in cooperation with 20 garment worker unions in six Asian countries, have published a report, detailing how the wage theft of Asian garment workers, directly led to high corporate profits for global fashion brands like Nike.
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Money Heist: COVID-19 Wage Theft in Global Garment Supply Chains
This report is the outcome of interviews with 2000+ garment workers from 189 factories across 6 countries to find out how 15 global fashion brands pushed thousands of workers below the poverty line in Asia, perpetrating large-scale wage theft against them.
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Joint Employer Liability Legal Strategy | Legal Brief
AFWA conceptualized a legal brief titled "Joint Employer Liability Legal Strategy: Holding Global Apparel Brands Legally Liable for Labour Rights Violations in their Supply Chains in Asia," to discuss legal actions that garment workers’ unions in Asian production countries could take to hold global apparel brands liable as Joint Employers for payment of workers’ wages and benefits during COVID-19.
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The Emperor Has No Clothes: Garment Supply Chains in the Time of Pandemic (Issue III)
The third issue of “Emperor Has No Clothes” highlights the challenges that suppliers, in particular, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) face due to the Covid-19 lockdown measures and reduced business activities, and how these challenges translate into increased risk and burden of liability for garment workers. This issue brings together discussions on the impact of, and response to, COVID-19 by suppliers and garment unions.
The Emperor Has No Clothes: Garment Supply Chains in the Time of Pandemic (Issue II)
The second issue of the “Emperor Has No Clothes” lays special emphasis on the issues around wage payment, support mechanisms and layoffs of garment workers, specifically in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Most importantly, the report presents a typology of discriminatory practices in the labour market that account for the immediate impact of the pandemic on garment workers in terms of access to employment.
The Emperor Has No Clothes: Garment Supply Chains in the Time of Pandemic (Issue I)
The first issue of the series ‘The Emperor Has No Clothes: Garment Supply Chain in the Time of Pandemic’ looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected garment workers in four major textile and apparel production countries: Cambodia, India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. The report lays special emphasis on the impact of the pandemic and institutional responses in four dimensions, viz. wage disbursal, social security, migration, and healthcare.
Living Wage in Asia | AFWA – Clean Clothes Campaign
Asia Floor Wage Alliance and Clean Clothes Campaign collaborate on this report to look at the low wages being paid across six of the major garment-producing countries in Asia – Cambodia, China, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and Sri Lanka.
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General Wage Situation of Apparel Industry Workers in Sri Lanka
The report provides an overview of the Sri Lankan garment industry and the wage situation of Sri Lankan garment industry workers.
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Asia Floor Wage and Global Industrial Collective Bargaining
This essay, published in the International Journal of Labour Research, and co-authored by Anannya Bhattacharjee and Ashim Roy, explains the development of Asia Floor Wage as a cross-border living wage benchmark for garment workers in Asia and its significance for global brand bargaining.
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Route Map to an Asia Floor Wage: 10 Steps Brands and Retailers Can Take Towards Implementing a Minimum Living Wage
Asia Floor Wage Alliance and Clean Clothes Campaign collaborated on this publication to list ten steps global brands can take towards implementing a minimum living wage for garment workers in Asia, who produce their clothing.
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Raising the Floor: The Movement for a Living Wage in Asia
The neoliberal "free trade" model of development has failed to raise the standard of living for most of the world's people. In this report, AFWA argues that only a regional wage standard - one that is based on labor rights and prioritizes the demand for a living wage - can.
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