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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.