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Global Wage Trends for Apparel Workers, 2001-2011

Country: Global
Issues: Living Wage, Minimum Wage

Garment workers in many of the leading apparel-exporting countries earn little more than subsistence wages for the long hours of labor that they perform. And in many of these countries, as this report discusses, the buying power of these wages is going down, not up.