Volume III in the By the Sweat & Toil of Children series,
titled The Apparel Industry and Codes of Conduct, explores the use
of codes of conduct by manufacturers as a possible solution to the international
child labor problem.
The first part of this report focuses on information gathered from a
voluntary survey of retailers and apparel manufacturers in which most indicated
that they have adopted provisions to prohibit the use of child labor in products
they import. Generally, there are significant differences in the provisions'
definitions of child labor, the extent to which implementation of the codes is
transparent, and the ways in which the implementation of the provisions is
monitored and enforced.
The second part, focusing on information gathered from field visits to 74
apparel producing plants and 20 export processing zones in the Dominican
Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, and the Philippines,
examines ways in which codes of conduct are actually implemented. 242 pages.
1996.
