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Global Wage Trends for Apparel Workers

By on July 01, 2013

Global Wage Trends For Apparel Workers, 2001-2011When images of poor labor conditions in the garment industries of leading apparel-exporting countries reach the global news media, it is often because those conditions seem uniquely and unjustifiably extreme.

Malnourished workers working 14-hour days faint by the hundreds in Cambodian garment plants. Hundreds more are killed in deadly factory fires in Bangladesh and Pakistan by owners who lock exit doors when fires start—presumably because they fear that fleeing workers will stop to steal clothes.

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Consortium, Worker R. Global Wage Trends for Apparel Workers. , , . , 2013. Consortium, W. R. (2013). Global Wage Trends for Apparel Workers. , , . Consortium, Worker R. "Global Wage Trends for Apparel Workers." 2013, .Consortium Worker R. "Global Wage Trends for Apparel Workers." (2013). Consortium, W R 2013, 'Global Wage Trends for Apparel Workers', , , . Worker R Consortium, 'Global Wage Trends for Apparel Workers' (2013). Consortium W. R. Global Wage Trends for Apparel Workers. . 2013. Consortium, Worker R. Global Wage Trends for Apparel Workers. . 2013. , .

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