Essays on Garment Industry

Background

The Multifibre Agreement was developed in 1974 and governed the world’s textile sector until 2004 when it was phased-out. The accord inflicted quotas on the amount developing countries could export to the developed world. It was meant to help the developed countries adjust to existing absolute advantage that the developing countries have in the textile industry. The existence of the agreement allowed the Bangladesh textile industry to flourish in the 20th century and early 21st century. It was highly expected that the phase-out of the MFA would greatly affect Bangladesh negatively as the country was highly dependent on ...

The Economics of $6.75 T-Shirt

Question 1. The market reality of garment industry in Bangladesh is extremely hard – prices for production are so low that do not cover even a life-needed level of wages. Moreover, this situation (wages under life-needed level) is widespread all over the country. And the reason of this is that the level of demand for this type of products is much lower than supply. In fact, nearly 20 million people in Bangladesh are connected to garment industry, which makes it one of the key industries in country’s economy. Such a huge supply leads to lower prices of products they ...

Among the main problems that worry the modern world especially acute problem of inter-ethnic relations, the ability of people of different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds live peacefully within one nation state to tolerate the right of another to be different, to be different but equal.

Today there are more than 270 nationalities and ethnic groups, while the number of states does not exceed 230. From what we can conclude that in the future mankind will have to live in a multiethnic state, as the trend of migration from one continent to another, from one region to the other ...

INTRODUCTION

The least amount of money offered to the workers in order to remunerate them for the tasks which they perform is called as the minimum wage rate (Saget, 2008). The wage rate offered to the workers is paid as suggested and prescribed by law. Usually the wage rate is denoted by hourly remuneration, and this rate is offered to the workers (Schulten, 2008). The legal authorities of the area are the ones which determine and negotiate the minimum wage rate which is permissible. The collective bargaining process includes the government regulations and this process specifically aims at proposing the ...

During Christmas season every year the pressure or retailers to deliver goods right today or the next day increases many folds. The case is no different for the apparel industry where the seasonal demands as well as changing fashions make it mandatory for the retailers like Marks & Spenser (M&S) to have extremely robust warehousing arrangements through out the supply chain. Most retailers particularly those who are online, depend on the strength of their supply chain network and warehousing, like logistics, in a vital part of the overall business model. In this note we will delve deeper into application of warehouses ...

The world’s population is tremendously growing especially in the developing countries and, as a result, such countries experience enormous problems due to the expanding needs of the people. The growth of population has affected the government’s ability to predict and generate policies that would serve the various needs of its population. Numerous problems arise as the government budgeted expenditure is stretched, and the level of poverty continues to increase. In fact, majority of persons in the developed countries live under deplorable conditions as a result of poverty, and this increases the vulnerability to diseases and other infections (Bader 212). ...

Interpretation (45)

People working in the clothes industry face serious mistreatment that violet their human rights. In most nations with these industries, laborers face oppression under a poor working environment. Just as slaves, they work for long hours with little payment that cannot meet their basic needs.

Analysis (406)

According to an article from the Guardian by Chamberlain, Indian clothing workers expose the condition under which they work. The clothing industries in the region include international firms such as Walmart, H&M, and Gap among others. The workers reveal that they receive monthly wages that are not enough to purchase even one of the garments ...

Business, Society, and Policy

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Introduction

Child labour is one of the biggest problems being faced by the industrial world in the current business environment. Despite the best efforts from governments around the world, it was very difficult to curb the menace effectively. The problem of child labour is severe in the developing countries like India, China, and many African countries. The practice of employing children has an adverse impact not only on the future lives of children but also on the society they live ...

Introduction

Different national and international organizations have observed the first anniversary of Rana Plaza collapse on April 24, 2013 in Dhaka, Bangladesh particularly in Savar. The incident was reported that on the day when the tragedy happened, there were eight buildings collapsed that claimed one thousand one hundred thirty-eight garment workers died mostly female workers. In addition, two thousand five hundred workers were seriously injured and one thousand five hundred workers were missing. The tragic incident drew attention of the world communities extremely and all Medias publicize the horrifying news of the incident worldwide. The most unquestionably horrific human tragedy ...

The Garment Industry has been faced with a lot of challenges in many countries across the world. First, Labor shortage is a common problem to the garment industry not only in New York but also in the third world countries. It is accelerated by the fact that few people are skilled to work in the textile industry. In other countries, people simply do not like working in the textile industry which leads to low manpower in the industry. This affects the production in the sense that there are few people to carry out the processes leading low to output. Inadequate labor ...

The Garment industry, also known as the textile industry, is concerned with the manufacture of cloth and yarn as well as subsequent design or clothing manufacturing and distribution. Raw materials used in this industry are either natural or synthetic. Natural materials include cotton and silk while synthetic materials are manufactured in a chemical process in the laboratory through combination of polymers. The textile industry though very crucial since without it human beings would still be walking around in hides and skins, has been faced with numerous challenges not only in New York but even in other places across the world. ...

Abstract

This paper tries to evaluate and provide different perspectives on the different cases pertaining to organization culture from different industries. This paper will shed some light on how the organizations could address the issues that confront them by providing three different perspective on the issues. Keywords: China’s labor law, organization culture, compensation, sexual harrassment, workplace ethics

Organization Culture

- When the first labour law in China came into effect in 1995 with the aim of reducing government intervention in human resource management (HMR), it was expected that this change will greatly affect many companies in the enterprise level. What ...

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English Date: December 5, 2013

The Garment District, which is is a rectangular stretch of Manhattan that spans from west 35th street to 42nd streets, to 7th and 9th avenues, used to be one of the major clothing manufacturing centers in the USA. The shape and borders of the area changed over time, yet the core remained the same and contributed enormously to the industrial evolution of the country, as well as its cultural development. Now, however, certain activists plan to change the name to something more modern and fashionable because, in their understanding, it will ...

Introduction

“Sweating” was an original 15th century term which was a metaphor for a severe labor exertion (Wilson, p. 1). This term got to be associated with garment work during the 1830’s (p. 1). The “sweatshop” was initially defined in the 1890s. It became popular during the 19th century as a “system of subcontracting by which rival manufacturers distributed work to contractors. These contractors, then, turned to other rival contractors and subcontractors to complete the jobs. Since fast work was required and the products were anticipated, the contractors and subcontractors would “sweat” as much labor from their workers. Under this system, the ...

Introduction

Bangaldesh is one of the poorest countries in the world and due to the fact that it is also one of the most overpopulated ones, it suffers from chronic conditions of excessive poverty and injustice. Obviously, there is a considerable labour force in this densely populated country and there is also a large percentage of this coming from child labour. This is actually illegal in the country but up till 1992 there were over 70,000 children under the age of 14 working in garment factories across the country (UNICEF 2010) but in that same year, the US banned importantion of ...