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Engaging for living wages in the fashion industry – Triodos Investment Management

Clothing brands and their shareholders must bear supply chain risks together with factories.

Posted on Dec 20, 2023

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... A living wage not only provides an income you can live on, but it also means your child can go to school and you can pay a doctor’s bill. This should be commonplace, but paying living wages in the fashion industry is the exception rather than the rule. How can clothing brands, like Nike, be influenced to change this?

Johanna Schmidt, Sustainability Researcher at Triodos, and Kim van der Weerd, a former garment factory manager, explain.

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