This report is the result of a collaborative research effort, coordinated by the international secretariat of the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC). CCC international partner organisations (trade unions and non-governmental organisations) have strongly pushed for better information on developments related to “social auditing”, the most commonly-used tool to determine compliance with codes of conduct in workplaces where garments and sports shoes are produced.
The CCC believes that this information is also of value to employers and buyers who have also expressed a need to break the deadlock surrounding discussions related to social auditing. This need for better-informed debate comes against a backdrop of only limited progress in improving conditions for workers in garment and sport shoe industry supply chains, in spite of a decade and a half of campaigning for change, and the continued use of social auditing by many companies to help present themselves as socially responsible.
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