Third world countries-Working conditions in the garment industry

Third world countries-Working
conditions in the garment industry

Table of Contents
Research Title: Third world countries – Working conditions in the garment industry...................1
Research Rationale...........................................................................................................................1
Research Background / Literature...................................................................................................1
Research aims and objectives..........................................................................................................3
Methodology....................................................................................................................................4
Resource required and Action Plan..................................................................................................5
Gantt Chart.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................8

Research Title: Third world countries – Working conditions in the garment
industry
Research Rationale
In order to determine working conditions in current environment, present research is mainly
done of nations that come under third world countries, because these areas are considered as
having high rates of poverty, instability in economic environment, as well as lack of human
resources as compared to other nations. In this regard, conducting study on respective topic, help
to determine what types of laws have still been made, to improve condition of workers,
especially that deal in garment industry (Alamgir and Alakavuklar, 2018). The reason behind is
complex environment of such industry, where workers are forced to work for more than 14 to 16
hours per day, on minimum wages. This would highly impact on physical and mental health of
labours where if they refused to do work within extra hours, then they directly fired from job.
Along with this, due to increase in poverty, labours within third world nations work within
unsafe working environment with improper ventilation, inhaling fibre dust, breathing toxic
substances and more. This results in increasing accidents, major injuries, fires and more,
including diseases due to work with chemicals in production. Therefore, doing study on this
topic will lead to compare laws of different-different nations, including ways to improve the
same. For this purpose, three main nations of third world countries are chosen, that are
Bangladesh, Liberia and Nepal, where a number of cases of these areas will be explored to reveal
the working condition of garment workers, including interventions taken by government to
improve it.
Research Background / Literature
As per the viewpoint of Wilkinson (2020), garment industries tell about the challenges faced
in global manufacturing. There exists a number of challenges in this industry which include low
wages, flexible or even no contracts as well as poor working conditions for workers. In third
world countries there is a huge workforce in informal garments as well as textile workers. It is
also seen that huge part of workforce is often invisible. It is necessary for garment workers to
organise and make policy gains for themselves.
According to Crinis (2019), it is often seen that workers are asked to work for longer hours when
compared to that of other industries. It has been seen for decades that clothes are made in such
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