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Together, we’re tackling poverty in the fashion industry.

Stand with the women who make our clothes.
Add your name to demand big brands pay a living wage.

More than 140,000 people have joined the campaign.

Thank you for standing with the women who make our clothes to demand big Australian brands pay a living wage.

We know big brands listen to their customers.
If enough of us come together, we can end the payment of poverty wages. Will you help us spread the word?

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Photo caption: Bangladesh: 23 years old Kakoli* lives alone since she started working in the garment factory. She hardly can send money to her parents living in village. She cuts yarn with a target of cut 120 yarns in an hour. With a 8970 Taka salary she hardly can manage her basic needs. Photo: Fabeha Monir/Oxfam

Oxfam’s What She Makes campaign demands big clothing brands pay the women who make our clothes a living wage.

Bangladesh: Textile workers are working inside a garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh. Photo: Fabeha Monir/Oxfam

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THE CAMPAIGN

Big brands are keeping the women who make our clothes living in poverty.

The women who make our clothes do not make enough to live on – keeping them in poverty. Despite long hours away from their families, working full time plus many hours of overtime, big clothing brands do not pay garment workers enough money to cover the basics of life – food and decent shelter.


“We wish to earn and live appropriately with that. That’s all I want.””

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Oxfam has released groundbreaking research, that reveals how unethical business practices of Australia’s fashion brands impact the women who make our clothes.

Made in Poverty: The True Price of Fashion

Groundbreaking research from Oxfam showing the impact that low wages has on the lives of the people who make our clothes. (February 2019)

Latest Updates

Dhaka, Bangladesh: Kakoli* works in a garment factory and barely earns enough to meet her needs. Oxfam's What She Makes campaign demands that big brands pay the women who make our clothes a living wage. Photo: Fabeha Monir/Oxfam. *Name changed to protect identity.

Make Waves for a Living Wage

This summer, we’re turning up the heat on brands, demanding they start paying a living wage to garment workers – because making enough to live on shouldn’t be a pipe dream. Sign the petition today to demand brands start paying a living wage. 

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Lorna Jane pays a living wage

Congratulate Lorna Jane for paying a living wage to their workers

A What She Makes first! Lorna Jane have shown they have reached Step 5 on the Company Tracker: Pay a Living Wage! 

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Demand Best&Less and Myer keep their workers safe. Sign the Accord
24 April 2024

Demand Best&Less and Myer keep their workers safe

It’s been 11 years since the Rana Plaza factory collapsed, killing 1,134 workers. Demand Best&Less and Myer put safety over profit and sign the Accord today.

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23 September 2023

Oxfam’s Christmas Wish List 2023

All we want for Christmas is for the women who make our clothes to be paid a living wage.

Our Christmas Wish List includes brands that are lagging behind on their journey to pay a living wage.

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Bangladesh: Laily* with her son Safyun (2.5yr). Laily* works as a homebased garment worker. She joined garment factory at 12. Since 2019, she started working from home. Laily* brings orders from small factories and do them. Order like bed sheets, pillow covers, and one-piece dresses, these orders are given at home for sewing. With her income she hardly can earn 5000 taka. Photo: Fabeha Monir/Oxfam
12 September 2023

What She Makes Trip Report 2023

In early 2023 Oxfam Australia, Canada and Aoteaoa (NZ) visited Bangladesh. This was an opportunity for the women who make our clothes to tell their stories, helping us spread the truth about what she makes.  

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02 July 2023

New eBook! Who made my clothes?

Did you know the women in Bangladesh who make our clothes get paid as little as $173 a month? Download our FREE eBook to uncover the ugly truth behind fast fashion and how together, we can create a fairer fashion industry. 

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Bangladesh: 35 years old Nilufa Yesmin is a Rana Plaza survivor. She is still suffering from the consequences of the factory collapse. Her spinal cord is fractured when she was crushed under a Beam in Rana Plaza. Now she is unable to do any work. Photo: Fabeha Monir/Oxfam
24 April 2023

Ten years on from Rana Plaza tragedy

Oxfam Australia is marking the 10th anniversary of the Rana Plaza tragedy by calling on Australian brands to do more to protect the rights of garment workers. 

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