I’ve been researching the global garment industry – a major generator of jobs, exports and economic growth.

Earlier research suggests that mainstream interventions (ad hoc NGO workshops and box-ticking corporate codes of conduct) are largely ineffective, because they do not strengthen the power of labour against capital.

Across South East Asia, it is mass strikes and demonstrations that have led to concerted increases in the minimum wage. To strengthen the collective power of labour against capital, it's important to tackle gender ideologies and reform international trade.

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