Fact Sheet Child Labour – Focus On The Role Of Buying Companies
Van der Wal Sanne, 2014
Name of publisher/editor
SOMO
Geographic area
Global
Summary & key words
This factsheet is about child labor in the global textile and garment supply chain, particularly in Asia. Children are being put to work at all stages of the supply chain – from the production of cotton seed, cotton harvesting, and yarn spinning mills to all the phases in the cut-make-trim stage. As well as working in fields, children are also working in large formal factories and small informal factories, as well as in sub-contracted workshops and their own homes. Young children are working in the high-tech spinning mills, in the power loom industry, as well as weaving on hand looms.