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What happened after the ‘Boohoo Scandal’? A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective of the Garment Industry in Leicester (Feb 2024)

LATEST REPORT This report documents the impact of the ‘Boohoo scandal’ on the community and the garment industry in Leicester from a multi-stakeholder perspective. The revelation of poor and exploitative working conditions in Leicester’s garment factories, known as the ‘Boohoo scandal’ (July 2020), brought the town into the spotlight, garnering attention from the media, the […]

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Work with us – Research Assistant

Job Title: Research Assistant Duration: July-October 2022  Job purpose: To assist in conducting fieldwork for a large UKRI-funded project based at the University of Bath, UK. The RA is expected to assist in data collection in South India in the garment and IT industry. The job would fit a researcher or social worker interested in labor […]

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State-Migrant Relations in India: Internal Migration, Welfare Rights and COVID-19

Pankhuri Agarwal’s forthcoming article in a special issue of the journal, Social Change, explicitly centres on state-migrant relations and provides tools to understand the efficacy of social welfare policies in contemporary Indian bureaucratic transformations. Through a multi-sited ethnographic study of internal migrants working in informal occupations in Delhi, Pankhuri shows that the everyday lived experience […]

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Hybrid (un)freedom in Worker Hostels in Garment Supply Chains

Vivek Soundararajan along with colleagues Andrew Crane, Michael Bloomfield, Genevieve LeBaron, and Laura Spence, has published new research on the complexities of freedom and unfreedom in worker hostels in global supply chains. Worker hostels or dormitories are common in labour-intensive industries staffed largely by migrant labour and have long been associated with exploitative practices. More […]

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