Progress and potential: a focus on sourcing practices from a factory perspective

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Thematic brief (Better Work programme), ILO

2016

Abstract

value chains

production function

factory organization

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Title: Progress and potential; a focus on sourcing practices from a factory perspective
Contributors: International Labour Office
Better Work Programme
International Finance Corporation
Publisher: ILO; Geneva
Date published: 2016
Series: Thematic brief (Better Work programme)
Number of pages: 6 p.
Language: English
Asset Type: brief
Record Identifier: 995321136002676
Table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Factory and buyer relationships -- 3. Factory managers’ perspectives on sourcing practices -- 4. The link between sourcing practices and non-compliance -- 5. Conflicting signals on excessive working hours -- 6. Effects of sourcing practices from the workers’ perspective -- 7. Sourcing practices, supervisor stress and verbal abuse -- 8. Conclusions and implications.