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Female sewing machine operators work on their machines in one of Ethiopia’s garment factories. The country’s industrial parks are one of the government's strategies to facilitate the export of manufactured goods. There are three such parks specialized in garment and textile production, which employ around 70,000 workers. Despite COVID-19 and other challenges, the three leading industrial parks registered growth in annual exports amounting to US$ 102 million. Industrial parks account for only 5 percent of the country's total exports, but represent 43 percent of manufactured exports.
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Dhaka, Narayanganj, Bangladesh.
Are you an early riser? If you are, you've probably seen them. Every morning, they head together to their workplaces. They are the women workers of ready-made garments industries in Bangladesh. While they walk, they hold firmly to their lunch boxes and keep their eyes on the street. They are determined to change their fate.
The statistics is staggering. Around 1.5 million women work in the export oriented garments industries of Bangladesh, which is 80 percent of the total workforce. Even a few years ago, women from the underprivileged portion of the population were even afraid to dream about such a revolution. Hope was something synonymous to echo, which reflected back to them when they hoped for anything but a confined shelter in their husband's home. Such a shelter came with a price of hefty dowry and torture from the sadomasochistic and illiterate husbands. In a society, where the only vent to freedom is education, these women usually cannot even finish their fifth grade before they have to leave schools.
The garments industry came as another pathway to empowerment. It provided the taste of freedom and self-independence that these women could never dream of. When this industry was rising in Bangladesh, they jumped on the very first wagon of freedom to prove what they could do if given an opportunity. They are paid a nominal wage; they have to face a lot of hurdles from the society which is not yet ready to accept them outside the four walls. But, the hunger for independence is insatiable. They have learnt how to work along with the men and in most of the cases surpass their male counterparts in terms of productivity. In the male dominant domain of Bangladesh, this is a silent revolution.
Despite the persisting problems of worker-owner conflicts on wages, sabotage and infrastructure issues, the ready-made garments industries are the single most important export sector of Bangladesh, which stand third among all the garments exporting nations in the world. When you buy a T-shirt with the tag "Made in Bangladesh" from a super shop in America or UK, you might wonder how a small country like Bangladesh conquered the textile market of the world. Well, now you know who are behind this victory, these little women with their big dreams. They have found the factories of freedom they have been waiting for decades.
Freedom is now.
Garment Worker Sculpture by Judith Weller on 7th Avenue at West 39th Street in Manhattan / New York City NY on Friday afternoon, 25 May 2012 by Elvert Barnes Photography
2012 /Memorial Day Weekend / NYC Project
Dhaka, Narayanganj, Bangladesh.
Are you an early riser? If you are, you've probably seen them. Every morning, they head together to their workplaces. They are the women workers of ready-made garments industries in Bangladesh. While they walk, they hold firmly to their lunch boxes and keep their eyes on the street. They are determined to change their fate.
The statistics is staggering. Around 1.5 million women work in the export oriented garments industries of Bangladesh, which is 80 percent of the total workforce. Even a few years ago, women from the underprivileged portion of the population were even afraid to dream about such a revolution. Hope was something synonymous to echo, which reflected back to them when they hoped for anything but a confined shelter in their husband's home. Such a shelter came with a price of hefty dowry and torture from the sadomasochistic and illiterate husbands. In a society, where the only vent to freedom is education, these women usually cannot even finish their fifth grade before they have to leave schools.
The garments industry came as another pathway to empowerment. It provided the taste of freedom and self-independence that these women could never dream of. When this industry was rising in Bangladesh, they jumped on the very first wagon of freedom to prove what they could do if given an opportunity. They are paid a nominal wage; they have to face a lot of hurdles from the society which is not yet ready to accept them outside the four walls. But, the hunger for independence is insatiable. They have learnt how to work along with the men and in most of the cases surpass their male counterparts in terms of productivity. In the male dominant domain of Bangladesh, this is a silent revolution.
Despite the persisting problems of worker-owner conflicts on wages, sabotage and infrastructure issues, the ready-made garments industries are the single most important export sector of Bangladesh, which stand third among all the garments exporting nations in the world. When you buy a T-shirt with the tag "Made in Bangladesh" from a super shop in America or UK, you might wonder how a small country like Bangladesh conquered the textile market of the world. Well, now you know who are behind this victory, these little women with their big dreams. They have found the factories of freedom they have been waiting for decades.
Freedom is now.
Dhaka, Narayanganj, Bangladesh.
Are you an early riser? If you are, you've probably seen them. Every morning, they head together to their workplaces. They are the women workers of ready-made garments industries in Bangladesh. While they walk, they hold firmly to their lunch boxes and keep their eyes on the street. They are determined to change their fate.
The statistics is staggering. Around 1.5 million women work in the export oriented garments industries of Bangladesh, which is 80 percent of the total workforce. Even a few years ago, women from the underprivileged portion of the population were even afraid to dream about such a revolution. Hope was something synonymous to echo, which reflected back to them when they hoped for anything but a confined shelter in their husband's home. Such a shelter came with a price of hefty dowry and torture from the sadomasochistic and illiterate husbands. In a society, where the only vent to freedom is education, these women usually cannot even finish their fifth grade before they have to leave schools.
The garments industry came as another pathway to empowerment. It provided the taste of freedom and self-independence that these women could never dream of. When this industry was rising in Bangladesh, they jumped on the very first wagon of freedom to prove what they could do if given an opportunity. They are paid a nominal wage; they have to face a lot of hurdles from the society which is not yet ready to accept them outside the four walls. But, the hunger for independence is insatiable. They have learnt how to work along with the men and in most of the cases surpass their male counterparts in terms of productivity. In the male dominant domain of Bangladesh, this is a silent revolution.
Despite the persisting problems of worker-owner conflicts on wages, sabotage and infrastructure issues, the ready-made garments industries are the single most important export sector of Bangladesh, which stand third among all the garments exporting nations in the world. When you buy a T-shirt with the tag "Made in Bangladesh" from a super shop in America or UK, you might wonder how a small country like Bangladesh conquered the textile market of the world. Well, now you know who are behind this victory, these little women with their big dreams. They have found the factories of freedom they have been waiting for decades.
Freedom is now.
Dhaka, Narayanganj, Bangladesh.
Are you an early riser? If you are, you've probably seen them. Every morning, they head together to their workplaces. They are the women workers of ready-made garments industries in Bangladesh. While they walk, they hold firmly to their lunch boxes and keep their eyes on the street. They are determined to change their fate.
The statistics is staggering. Around 1.5 million women work in the export oriented garments industries of Bangladesh, which is 80 percent of the total workforce. Even a few years ago, women from the underprivileged portion of the population were even afraid to dream about such a revolution. Hope was something synonymous to echo, which reflected back to them when they hoped for anything but a confined shelter in their husband's home. Such a shelter came with a price of hefty dowry and torture from the sadomasochistic and illiterate husbands. In a society, where the only vent to freedom is education, these women usually cannot even finish their fifth grade before they have to leave schools.
The garments industry came as another pathway to empowerment. It provided the taste of freedom and self-independence that these women could never dream of. When this industry was rising in Bangladesh, they jumped on the very first wagon of freedom to prove what they could do if given an opportunity. They are paid a nominal wage; they have to face a lot of hurdles from the society which is not yet ready to accept them outside the four walls. But, the hunger for independence is insatiable. They have learnt how to work along with the men and in most of the cases surpass their male counterparts in terms of productivity. In the male dominant domain of Bangladesh, this is a silent revolution.
Despite the persisting problems of worker-owner conflicts on wages, sabotage and infrastructure issues, the ready-made garments industries are the single most important export sector of Bangladesh, which stand third among all the garments exporting nations in the world. When you buy a T-shirt with the tag "Made in Bangladesh" from a super shop in America or UK, you might wonder how a small country like Bangladesh conquered the textile market of the world. Well, now you know who are behind this victory, these little women with their big dreams. They have found the factories of freedom they have been waiting for decades.
Freedom is now.
A supervisor stands by a production line in the sewing department of a garment factory in Ethiopia.
The 42 factories enrolled in Better Work Ethiopia experienced a production downturn in the first quarter of 2020, with order cancellations by major buyers and a shortage of raw materials, which posed a significant obstacle to meet their operating and administrative costs. Even in this complex scenario, the programme started to roll out an innovative, integrated factory service model combining the expertise of various technical departments of the ILO. As a result of the programme’s advisory services, factories established OSH committees and strengthened their OSH management systems and social dialogue mechanisms.
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rain or shine, the Jewish steamster is hard at work, just a few meters away from the giant button & needle of the fashion district information booth
if I had a better zoom, you would be able to see the little rain drop about to fall from his nose ;)
you can see the Ernst & Young building behind him (red letters) and the beginning of Times Square. We are looking to the North, on Seventh Avenue
See nycdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2007/09/fashion-district-giant...
rain or shine, the Jewish steamster is hard at work, just a few meters away from the giant button & needle of the fashion district information booth
if I had a better zoom, you would be able to see the little rain drop about to fall from his nose ;)
you can see the Ernst & Young building behind him (red letters) and the beginning of Times Square. We are looking to the North, on Seventh Avenue
See nycdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2007/09/fashion-district-giant...
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.” (William Faulkner)
UPDATE: THIS BUILDING HAS BEEN DEMOLISHED
Calhoun Falls is a mill town in South Carolina, near the Savannah River. An extension of the cotton photographs that precede these images, I suppose. Farm to factory.
The Garment Worker, an eight-foot bronze sculpture by Judith Weller, was installed at 555 Seventh Avenue in 1984 to honor the area’s history as the Garment District. The sculpture, depicting an immigrant man at a sewing machine, was inspired by Weller’s smaller 1978 piece of her tailor father, which she submitted to the National Sculpture Society exhibition. The larger version was sponsored by the Ladies Garment Workers Union to commemorate the Jewish garment workers who were central to New York’s garment industry.
A member of the management of one of Ethiopia’s garment factories stands in her office where clothing samples are displayed. As Better Work Ethiopia adapted its advisory and training services to a virtual delivery mode during the pandemic, it faced the challenge of recurring technology and connection issues, which hindered the full participation of factory and worker representatives in bipartite committee meetings. The programme delivered 61 training sessions virtually over the year, but worker attendance levels were low. Due to a lack of online infrastructure at the factory level, employees gathered in small groups to participate in training while respecting social distancing rules.
#Ethiopia #garmentindustry #garmentworkers #workersrights #apparel #manufacturing #clothing #COVID #covid_19
After attending a national May Day event in Dhaka, the ILO Deputy Director-General for Field Operations, Gilbert Houngbo met Mikail Shipar, Secretary of Labour and Employment.
Photo © Marcel Crozet / ILO
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Gilbert Houngbo is leading a high-level mission to Bangladesh to offer support and expedite action by all parties following the collapse of the Rana Plaza Building in Savar, which left at least 380 people dead.
Through advisory support, Better Work Ethiopia helped create gender-balanced OSH committees in 28 factories in 2020. Both workers and management are represented and equipped with tools to improve OSH conditions through social dialogue, including personal protective equipment, clean drinking water and hygienic toilets.
The programme’s advisory services have given the factories a better understanding of OSH directives and OSH management systems, with committees meeting regularly and conducting their risk assessments. Conducting self-diagnoses is now part of these committees. Factories are achieving improved compliance rates by identifying hazards and potential non-compliances and working on the remediation internally before any external audits do so.
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The Ethiopian government issued a COVID-19 workplace protocol, and SIRAYE/Better Work Ethiopia supported its implementation in 35 factories by creating COVID-19 factory task forces. In partnership with Bureaus of Labour and Social Affairs (BOLSA) the programme provided training for 86 workers in 14 factories to help prevent the spread of the virus. All these initiatives aimed to set up virus prevention mechanisms, improve hygiene for factory workers — including the procurement of personal protective equipment — and raise awareness about the disease in industrial parks and at the community level.
#Ethiopia #garmentworkers #garmentindustry #OSH #workersrights #apparel #garment #manufacturing #COVID #covid_19 #clothing
No More! Garment workers parading on May Day, New York City - 1916.
News Service photograph - George Grantham Bain Collection. Library of Congress
Garment workers stand in line observing the WHO-recommended social distancing while waiting to get their lunch in one of Ethiopia’s garment factories. The Ethiopian government issued a COVID-19 workplace protocol, and SIRAYE/Better Work Ethiopia supported its implementation in 35 factories by creating COVID-19 factory task forces. In partnership with Bureaus of Labour and Social Affairs (BOLSA) the programme provided training for 86 workers in 14 factories to help prevent the spread of the virus. All these initiatives aimed to set up virus prevention mechanisms, improve hygiene for factory workers — including the procurement of personal protective equipment — and raise awareness about the disease in industrial parks and at the community level.
#Ethiopia #garmentworkers #COVID #covid_19 #manufacturing #OSH #workersrights #PPE #apparel #garmentindustry
In Fayetteville, AR... go to the International Labor Rights Forum website to learn more about the leaders of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity who are facing false criminal charges for organizing. These charges could result in life imprisonment or the death penalty. Call on Wal-Mart to pressure the Bangladeshi government to drop the charges!
July 1915. Location: New York.
The picture does make one remember Abbott and Castello's Broome Street routine.
A member of the factory management checks fire extinguishers in one of Ethiopia’s clothing plants. Better Work Ethiopia conducted 18 assessments in 2019-2020 in registered factories, and the majority of identified issues are related to Occupational Safety and Health (OSH). The creation of OSH committees has played a vital role in tackling these issues concerning COVID-19 prevention and on-going non-compliance rates. The programme has supported these committees’ creation and encouraged social dialogue in factories to solve workplace issues and improve cooperation.
#Ethiopia #garmentindustry #garmentworkers #workersrights #workers #COVID #covid_19 #OSH
#manufacturing #apparel
ILO Deputy Director-General for Field Operations, Gilbert Houngbo meets....
After attending a national May Day event in Dhaka, the ILO Deputy Director-General for Field Operations, Gilbert Houngbo met Mikail Shipar, Secretary of Labour and Employment.
Photo © Marcel Crozet / ILO
More informations at : www.ilo.org
More pictures at : www.ilo.org/dyn/media
Follow the ILO : www.facebook.com/ILO.ORG/
Gilbert Houngbo is leading a high-level mission to Bangladesh to offer support and expedite action by all parties following the collapse of the Rana Plaza Building in Savar, which left at least 380 people dead.
After attending a national May Day event in Dhaka, the ILO Deputy Director-General for Field Operations, Gilbert Houngbo met Mikail Shipar, Secretary of Labour and Employment.
Photo © Marcel Crozet / ILO
More informations at : www.ilo.org
More pictures at : www.ilo.org/dyn/media
Follow the ILO : www.facebook.com/ILO.ORG/
Gilbert Houngbo is leading a high-level mission to Bangladesh to offer support and expedite action by all parties following the collapse of the Rana Plaza Building in Savar, which left at least 380 people dead.