Reports

Tailored Wages 2019, the state of pay in the global garment industry

Since the beginning of this century, global brands sourcing clothing from low wage countries around the world have acknowledged on paper that wages paid to workers should be enough to meet their basic needs. Yet, two decades on, workers and their families remain in stark poverty. The garment industry has continued for all this time to use workers’ low cost labour to make mass profits. Their so called ‘commitments’ to ensure wages are enough have made little or no real difference. Brands wield huge power and millions of dollars of business every year in the garment industry. They have the freedom to p...