Why India’s Garment Factories Are Unreliable for New Workers
In recent years, India has sewn its way toward a more reliable income for nearly 35 million garment industry workers. Agricultural laborers left the fields to work in factories that sprouted up as the economy gained steam. But as demand for exports has dropped amid the global financial crisis, hundreds of thousands of Indian garment workers have found their new line of work is on shaky ground. Sudden job losses highlight an industry where workers have few rights and where the support systems that help laborers in developed markets are lacking, according to experts interviewed by India Knowledge@Wharton.
Read MorePricewaterhouseCoopers and Rivals are Recruiting More M.B.A.s
Sept 11, 2009 – PricewaterhouseCoopers is ramping up its hiring of M.B.A.s, with plans to recruit 75 to 100 business-school graduates in 2010. The Big Four accounting firm planned to bring on 60 to 90 graduates from master’s degree in business programs in 2009, up from 40 last year. “We’ve found that we have excellent [...]
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