In the fourth paper in Katalyst’s Building Blocks for Governing Global Value Chains series, we attempt to answer the seemingly simple – but to date poorly-documented questions: How many people work in the garment industry, where, and in what value chain stages?
The answers – and what we learned about the quality of global labour force data available to policymakers – has serious consequences for the design of regulations such as the CSDDD or forced labour bans, and for any efforst to develop a Just Transition to a more sustainable industry.
Read more and download the paper here.
New Publication: Global Garment Workers Count
