Conversations with young, first-generation female workers of electronics factories in the industrial hub of Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu on how they perceive industrialization and its consequent changes on their formerly rural landscapes, their lives, and whether their jobs are meeting their newfound expectations and aspirations for a better life.
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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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Cividep hosted an event on how creches at garment factories in Bangalore are presently functioning...
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Fibre2Fashion.com features our collaborative study on the provision and quality of childcare and creche facilities in Bangalore’s garment factories and the results of a consequent multi-stakeholder consultation with the state government.
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