Reports
The WRC conducts research into issues of concern in the apparel supply chain. Our research projects are often conducted in partnership with colleagues at our university affiliates and other research institutions.
Backsliding Toward Disaster?
Issues:
Health & Safety Violations, Safety Accords
Apparel Brand Responses to the Earthquake in Türkiye
Issues:
Health & Safety Violations, Statutory Benefit Violations
The Unequal Impacts of Covid-19 on Global Garment Supply Chains
Issues:
Covid-19, Forced Labor
Unfinished Business: Outstanding safety hazards at garment factories show that the Accord must be extended and expanded
Issues:
Health & Safety Violations, Safety Accords
Fired, Then Robbed: Fashion brands’ complicity in wage theft during Covid-19
Issues:
Covid-19, Wage Theft
Hunger in the Apparel Supply Chain
Issues:
Covid-19
Hambre en la cadena de suministro de la industria de la confección
Issues:
Covid-19
Leveraging Desperation: Apparel Brands’ Purchasing Practices during Covid-19
Issues:
Covid-19
Unpaid Billions: Trade Data Show Apparel Order Volume and Prices Plummeted through June, Driven by Brands’ Refusal to Pay for Goods They Asked Suppliers to Make
Issues:
Covid-19
Farce majeure: How global apparel brands are using the Covid-19 pandemic to stiff suppliers and abandon workers
Issues:
Covid-19
Un(der)paid in the pandemic
Issues:
Covid-19
“My children don’t have food. I can withstand this hunger, but they cannot.”
Issues:
Covid-19