Reflections on the Scope of impact of our Compliance Training midway through the project
Whoah, the past 7 months of coordinating this social compliance evaluation project with our research team I have gained an infinite amount of lifetime lessons. Time has flown by, and this is the first time in months that I’ve found the time to sit down and reflect on what’s happened. We have now gone through [...]
Every single step forward, in reality means a thousand steps back, in trying to implement change in the garment industry
After endless meetings with factory owners, directors and managers of all kinds – everything from spiritual preachers making broad statements that “Happiness, and power is worthless if not shared, this is why I always tell my workers that in the end I am their slave, we are interdependent so need to feel each other and show [...]
Behind the scenes of the garment industry in Bangladesh.. and the challenge of making even a modest change
In the fashion industry, a company selling a T-shirt in the UK for EUR 4.95 may spend only 95 cents on production in Bangladesh, yet it will still see to it that ‘corporate responsibility’ is written large in the headlines of its sustainability reports. How can this be? From a feminist perspective, it is curious [...]
