In last week’s Garment Worker Diaries blog we promised further analysis of the types of factories in our study sample in Bangladesh. This week, we share that analysis with you by comparing brand-facing and non-brand facing factories.
The catalyst for performing this analysis was to see whether workers at two different types of factories in our study were faring as well as each other in terms of work hours, wages, health, and other metrics. We’ve defined elsewhere what brand-facing means, and we define it again for you in the blog.
What we discovered is that there are some statistically significant differences between what workers at each type of factory are telling us. We can’t yet be certain if the key difference is whether or not brands have a public, transparent relationship with one type of factory over another. But, that could certainly play a part.
We hope you’ll check out the full blog, and if you have any questions for us or the workers, please write to [email protected]
