Working Conditions And Occupational Safety Of Women In The Garment Sector:

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dc.contributor.author Shruti, Appalla
dc.date.accessioned 2021-01-04T09:31:40Z
dc.date.available 2021-01-04T09:31:40Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.identifier.uri http://opac.nls.ac.in:8081/xmlui/handle/123456789/295
dc.description.abstract The focus of this dissertation is to look at how the garment supply chain is regulated and monitored by traditional (governments, trade unions, and international organizations like the ILO and World Trade Organization) and non- traditional actors like local and global civil society initiatives, international consumer movements like the Clean Clothes Campaign, self-regulating corporates, audit and monitoring firms, Global Unions, and Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives. It reflects on how each of these actors interacts with the others to come up with standards and how effective they are in implementing these standards. It attempts to start this process by contextualising from existing literature, the impact of the global supply chain (GSC) on women workers in factories in Delhi/NCR and Bangalore. As a result of identifying gaps in research, it narrows down on regulation of working conditions and occupational safety for women workers as the focus of the study. It employs a qualitative research methodology based on an interview method to gather insights from a wide range of actors in the garment sector. It settles that non-traditional actors have risen in the garment sector in an attempt to increase engagement with brands and corporates in an environment where state-based traditional actors were weakened by the force of the GSC. In the process, it recognizes that such non-conventional actors like MSIs and NGOs have severe limitations not just in the issues they can take up with brands but also in the extent to which they can impact a brand’s commercial decisions. In this regard, traditional actors like trade unions and labour inspectors still had important roles albeit with fewer resources and lesser support in the current regime. It recommends a renewed focus on domestic labour legislation and indicates that brands and governments must make efforts to reimagine the supply chain from a gendered policy approach with a focus on transparency, disclosure and worker representation en_US
dc.publisher National Law School of India University en_US
dc.title Working Conditions And Occupational Safety Of Women In The Garment Sector: en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
dc.Contributor.Advisor Babu Mathew


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