Stand with homeworkers.
Millions of women work as homeworkers – trimming, cutting and embroidering clothes and shoes in their homes or small workshops away from factories.
Homeworkers are an integral part of the fashion supply chain. However, their existence is ignored by many of the big fashion brands, and they are often denied minimum wage, sick pay and maternity leave.
Fashion’s unseen stories
In 2023 Homeworkers in Tirupur, India spent three months documenting their lives and experience as homeworkers in fashion’s supply chains.
“We hope to bring out our stories through photographs. Through photographs I hope everyone will get to know that homebased workers exist and understand how we do the work.” K. Kavitha, Homeworker and leader of a workers collective in Tirupur.
The score
We ranked the biggest fashion brands across the UK and Ireland in their approach to homeworking. Brands are scored on whether they have an inclusive policy and if it is publicly available and whether there is evidence of the brand implementing its policy.
