Following the recent tragedy in Bangladesh- would you pay more for ethical production?
Depressingly, a Huff/Post YouGov poll of American shoppers found little awareness about the incident or sources of their clothing.
This paper from 2005 found that despite their stated support for free trade coffee consumers often purchased other cheaper brands.
Find further economics working papers on Repec.
Organisations which are campaigning against the use of third world sweatshops
- Clean Clothes Campaign– an international alliance of labor unions and non-governmental organizations. Its includes surveys of particular regions e.g. Bangladesh campaigns
- International Labor Rights Fund
- International Labour Organization a specialized agency of the United Nations has statistics on decent work, the informal economy and regional labor
- Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights– founded to combat sweatshop labor and US government policy in El Salvador and Central America. Includes testimonies and news stories from Bangladesh
- United Students Against Sweatshops, a student organization in the United States and Canada garment worker campaigns being organised in the USA.
- War on Want has many papers and reports exposing sweatshops on its website see these resources relating to Bangladesh
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