Cividep India’s Pradeepan Ravi gives inputs in this news story on the alarming rate of post-pandemic layoffs happening in Tamil Nadu’s leather industry, and how workers, especially women, are struggling to cope.
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In collaboration with the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, we contributed to a blog miniseries on the plight of invisible homeworkers in global supply chains. In a set of two articles, we discuss the importance of worker collectivization and the criticality of more rigorous due diligence by brands for enabling improvements in complex supply chains.
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Cividep India’s research report, ‘Tougher than Leather’, finds mention in this Pulitzer Centre story on environmental and human rights violations in India’s tannery industry that contributes a major percentage to the world’s leather production. Untreated effluents, workers operating in direct contact with toxic chemicals, and at risk of skin and lung problems, accidents etc., are just some of the problems plaguing the industry.
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A Reuters news article features a historic meeting that brought together homeworkers and manufacturers of Tamil Nadu’s leather industry with international leather brands for the first time. This was organized as a part of our research endeavor mapping the role of homeworkers, an otherwise invisible workforce in the global supply chain of leather goods.
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The ‘Stitching our Shoes’ research report co-authored by Cividep, Homeworkers Worldwide and Labour Behind the Label, is featured in this piece by Reuters. Our research reports how women homeworkers of Tamil Nadu, women who are an integral part of the global supply-chain manufacturing high-end shoes, but get paid below minimum wages and have no recognition as workers.
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