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More TLC? Trade-Labor Connections in the New Global Order

Join GLI’s day-long 2025 conference, which will focus on the state of labor standards and work in the new era of global trade. What does the landscape of trade policy look like in the Trump era? How will forced labor affect U.S. and E.U. trade actions? We will discuss those topics and more.

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More TLC? Trade-Labor Connections in the New Global Order

Hot Air: What works to combat extreme heat in apparel production in Asia?

Join us in Bangkok, Thailand at Thammasat Business School as we present new analyses and responses to heat’s impacts for workers, manufacturers, apparel brands and governments in South and Southeast Asia.
Workers walking across a precarious bridge over scant water
Hot Air: What works to combat extreme heat in apparel production in Asia?

The Dindigul Agreement to End Gender-based Violence and Harassment

Has It Worked?

This is GLI’s official final assessment of the Dindigul Agreement to End Gender-Based Violence and Harassment at a South Indian apparel factory that could be a model for other factories around the world. 

Large room of garment factory workers
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Warming to the Idea? Labor Governance and Extreme Heat in Apparel Production

Impacts of Climate Change on Global Apparel Production

How have weather conditions already started to affect the apparel industry and how should the industry adapt? This policy brief builds upon past GLI research and our report co-produced with the IFC and the ILO's Better Work program to present new findings on the impacts of extreme heat and the adaptation responses from employers, workers, their governments and buyers in the global apparel and footwear industry. See our new research here.

Cambodian workers are seen in a local footwear manufacturing plant, with containers of materials in multiple colors sitting in front of workers wearing bandanas and many wearing masks as well.
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Measuring Supply Chain Due Diligence

Labor Outcomes Metrics

Read about the Global Labor Institute's new quantitative metrics that measure labor outcomes—actual impacts for workers.

Workers in Bangladesh
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Latest Research and Events

Warming to the Idea? Labor Governance and Extreme Heat in Apparel Production

This policy brief builds upon past GLI research and our recent report co-produced with the IFC and the ILO's Better Work program. It presents new findings on the impacts of extreme heat and the adaptation responses from employers, workers, their governments and buyers in the global apparel and footwear industry.
Cambodian workers are seen in a local footwear manufacturing plant, with containers of materials in multiple colors sitting in front of workers wearing bandanas and many wearing masks as well.
Warming to the Idea? Labor Governance and Extreme Heat in Apparel Production

Assessment of a Unique Agreement to End Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in Apparel Factories

The Dindigul Agreement to End Gender-based Violence and Harassment (GBVH) has been successful in empowering women to identify and combat gender-based violence in the workplace, largely due to a strong female-led union and a productive labor-management relationship, according to a recent assessment by Cornell’s Global Labor Institute.
Large room of garment factory workers
Assessment of a Unique Agreement to End Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in Apparel Factories

The Dindigul Agreement to End Gender-based Violence and Harassment

This is GLI’s official final assessment of the Dindigul Agreement  to End Gender-Based Violence and Harassment  at a South Indian apparel factory that could be a model for other factories around the world.
Women working in a factory
The Dindigul Agreement to End Gender-based Violence and Harassment

GLI and the IFC-ILO: The Heat is On: How heat stress impacts the apparel industry, jobs, and worker health

This report, co-produced by GLI and the International Finance Corporation, with input from the International Labour Organization’s Better Work team, build upon past GLI research and examines the impacts of heat stress and flooding on the apparel industry.
The fron page of "The Heat is On" report. A woman stands with a yellow fabric over her head, and the title "The Heat is On: How heat stress impacts the apparel industry, jobs, and worker health" is on a dark maroon background. The logos of Cornell University, the Global Labor Institue, and the Facility for Investment Climate Advisory Services sit on the bottom of the page on a white background.
GLI and the IFC-ILO: The Heat is On: How heat stress impacts the apparel industry, jobs, and worker health

December 4 GLI Conference: More TLC? Trade-Labor Connections in the New Global Order

Please join us for GLI’s day-long 2025 conference, where we will focus on the state of labor standards and work in the new era of global trade.
Garment workers in an Indonesian factory
December 4 GLI Conference: More TLC? Trade-Labor Connections in the New Global Order

EU Forced Labour Regulation to the rescue: Can the EU’s Forced Labor Regulation confront the gendered face of forced labor?

As the EU is set to implement their Forced Labour Regulation in 2027, questions remain about how exactly it will tackle forced and child labour. Visiting Fellow Samira Rafaela interrogates that question by looking at the case of forced labor in the Indian sugar industry in this policy brief.
Sugar cane stands in a field in India
EU Forced Labour Regulation to the rescue: Can the EU’s Forced Labor Regulation confront the gendered face of forced labor?

In The News

Media Mentions

Do the Labor Provisions in Trump’s Southeast Asian Trade Deals Have a Point?

Sourcing Journal
Kelly Fay Rodriguez, visiting lecturer at ILR’s Global Labor Institute and former special representative for international affairs at the Department of State, analyzes the importance of labor provisions in trade agreements and discusses how these provisions can best be enforced.
Do the Labor Provisions in Trump’s Southeast Asian Trade Deals Have a Point?

Resilient Threads: Weaving A Climate-Ready, Regenerative Future for Cotton in India

Observer Research Foundation
A study by ILR’s Global Labor Institute is cited in a discussion about climate change causing problems for the cotton supply chain used by Asia’s fashion sector.
Resilient Threads: Weaving A Climate-Ready, Regenerative Future for Cotton in India

Jason Judd wants the apparel industry to take heat stress very seriously

Big Closets Small Planet Podcast
The garment industry can mitigate health problems and production slowdowns caused by heat stress, but will it? In this podcast episode, Jason Judd, executive director of the ILR Global Labor Institute, shares a nuanced look at climate change adaptation in the garment industry.
Jason Judd wants the apparel industry to take heat stress very seriously

Hot Air: How will fashion adapt to accelerating climate change?

Impacts of Climate Change on Global Apparel Production

How have weather conditions already changed in major apparel production centers? In this follow-up to our Higher Ground? reports, we looked at the past twenty years of weather data in our 23 focus cities to try and find that out, as well as ask how workers, brands and retailers, manufacturers and their governments should react and adapt to our warming future in a world of corporate due diligence. Read our findings here.

A flooded area near to Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Higher Ground? Fashion’s Climate Breakdown

Impacts of climate change on global apparel production

In partnership with Schroders, we report the impacts of climate change on global apparel production. In our first report, we track climate change impacts at the global, national, and factory levels. We map fashion's climate vulnerabilities across production centers, and estimate future economic damages from extreme heat and flooding. Our second report examines company-level climate risk, cost, and financing for adaption and just resilience.

Textile workers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Change or Groundhog Day? What new research tells us about what works in global labor governance

2024 GLI Conference Highlights

Samira Rafaela
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