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Stealing from the Poor: Wage Theft in the Haitian Apparel Industry

By on October 15, 2013

From the Executive Summary of the report: Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Its expanding garment industry pays wages to workers that are among the lowest in any of the world’s leading apparel-exporting nations.1 Yet despite benefiting from rock-bottom labor costs – as well as trade preferences under the HOPE II2 program – garment factory owners in Haiti routinely, and illegally, cheat workers of substantial portions of their pay, depriving them of any chance to free their families from lives of grueling poverty and frequent hunger.

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Consortium, Worker R. Stealing from the Poor: Wage Theft in the Haitian Apparel Industry. , , . , 2013. Consortium, W. R. (2013). Stealing from the Poor: Wage Theft in the Haitian Apparel Industry. , , . Consortium, Worker R. "Stealing from the Poor: Wage Theft in the Haitian Apparel Industry." 2013, .Consortium Worker R. "Stealing from the Poor: Wage Theft in the Haitian Apparel Industry." (2013). Consortium, W R 2013, 'Stealing from the Poor: Wage Theft in the Haitian Apparel Industry', , , . Worker R Consortium, 'Stealing from the Poor: Wage Theft in the Haitian Apparel Industry' (2013). Consortium W. R. Stealing from the Poor: Wage Theft in the Haitian Apparel Industry. . 2013. Consortium, Worker R. Stealing from the Poor: Wage Theft in the Haitian Apparel Industry. . 2013. , .

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