Highs and lows of a wage rise - the new garment minimum wage The Bangladeshi minimum wage board has, after long negotiations, announced a 76% increase in garment…
Striking Bangladeshi garment workers win a 77% pay rise Following a four day shutdown of hundreds of factories by strikes and a series of violent…
Cambodian garment workers march on the Prime Ministers house Protesting garment workers in Cambodia have clashed with police leaving scores injured. Workers…
Three million Indonesian workers strike for a 50% pay rise Three million workers across all sectors (mainly textiles) have begun a week-long strike to demand a…
Who can ride the garment tiger? On Saturday September 21st there began a 10 day mass agitation by Bangladeshi Ready Made Garment(RMG) workers demanding a 170% increase in their…
The US national textile workers' strike, 1934 - Jeremy Brecher Jeremy Brecher's history of the largely unsuccessful nationwide strike of textile workers during the…
A stitch in time: the ‘orchestrated networks’ of bloody Taylorism - John Barker An analysis of the global clothing supply chain, its technology and organisation of labour; it's…
The legacy of the dead - the Savar collapse, part 2 The site of the Dhaka factory collapse is now cleared; new concessions and reforms are announced. Some further reflections...
The house of cards: the Savar building collapse A detailed account and analysis of the latest human disaster in the Bangladeshi garment industry - a poorly constructed factory building…
Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers strike after factory collapse Hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike on Thursday in protest at the deaths of hundreds of…
Abe Lincoln and the 'sublime heroism' of British workers A blog by Paul Mason detailing the support of Manchester's white textile workers of black slaves…