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- Title
Evaluación de las políticas y prácticas empresariales de comercio justo en la industria de la confección: un estudio orientado a la empresa y al consumidor.
- Authors
García-Arenas, Cristina; Sáez-Gutiérrez, Francisco L.; Cavas, Francisco; Lozano, Antonio; Velázquez, José S.
- Abstract
This research article evaluates the fairness of the textile industry policies and practices in a double way, by examining both companies and consumers dynamics. To find out how equitable the garment sector market is, official reports from the most prominent companies were studied, to determine what they claim to be doing to improve the situation with workers from developing countries, if they meet their self-stablished criteria or not, and the actions that have been consequently taken. Furthermore, this research reflects consumers' dynamics and points out whether they are ethical and consequent with their opinions. Two different approaches were used to do so. The first one consisted of assessing the level of fairness in labor conditions of workers who belong to big supply chains contractors, using a variation of Grey's Approach and creating some standards. The second one was designing a survey whose data was subsequently analyzed with the objective of finding out if buyers made a conscious and equitable consumption of clothes. Consequently, the survey was divided into questions about buyers' knowledge of the situation and industry, common purchase practices, and their opinion. This paper proposes a quantitative way to evaluate how well are supply chains managing to provide a fair environment for workers coming from subcontracts in developing countries, as well as it allows some comparison between brands and give clues on how to improve. In addition, the perception and consumption pattern of common textile buyers was captured and appraised. These conclusions have helped to accurately describe the current situation of production chains in the garment sector. To the authors' knowledge, there is no other research describing how companies and consumers perceive the current situation of production chains and subcontracted workers in the garment sector using their own published data.
- Subjects
CONSUMPTION (Economics); CONSUMERS; SUPPLY chains; CLOTHING workers; DEVELOPING countries; TECHNICAL textiles
- Publication
DYNA - Ingeniería e Industria, 2022, Vol 97, Issue 5, p549
- ISSN
0012-7361
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.6036/10437