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A Study on Garment Production Mobility in Tiruppur

Author : Social Awareness and Voluntary Education (SAVE) | 2015
Published By: SAVE NGO

This study carried out by Labour Resource Centre (LRC) of SAVE, Tiruppur attempts to determine the garment production mobility in terms of garment workers involvement in the production, wages prevailing in the industries and worker’s violation at workplace. Three pronged approaches were used in the data collection viz., industrial survey, focused group discussion and interview schedule survey. In industrial survey 25 industries were survey, in focused group discussion a group of 7 workers of various industries were interviewed, 120 individual workers were interviewed using interview schedule tool. Most of sampled industries are manufacturing and exporting garments in the ranges of 50000 to 80000 pieces per month. Seven tenth of the sampled industries are making an annual turnover of rupees 7 crores to 9 crores. Majority of the workers are in the adult age group of 28 to 37 years. Women workers are observed high in garment industries in equal proportion with the men workers. Psychological and sexual abuses are more prevalent in the industries, of whom women are more vulnerable.

URL : http://www.savengo.org/pdf/PDFonline1.pdf

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