Garment-producing factories in Bangladesh are the unit of analysis in this week’s Garment Worker Diaries blogs. And yes, that’s correct, we’re publishing two blogs this week, in part to make up for taking a blogging holiday this week past.
We use factories as the unit of analysis less often and with great caution. One of the reasons we take such care analyzing factory-specific data is that factory names are notoriously difficult to verify. To that end, we’re publishing “What We Can Learn From Bangladeshi Factory Names“, written by our guest blogger Jonah Tauber who interned with us over the Summer. We hope that his blog will be able to accurately demonstrate for you some of the elemental frustration trying to standardize factory names creates!
In our second blog, we take a look at the evolution of digital pay within factories. Analyzing six months of data from April to September has yielded some interesting trends and possible correlations. As many factories begin reverting to cash wage payments since their unprecedented adoption of digital wage payments, it will be important to ask why this digital evolution was not longer-lived.
