Tansy Hoskins

Tansy Hoskins is an award-winning writer and journalist specialising in the garment industry. She is the author of ‘Foot Work: What Your Shoes Are Doing to the World’ and ‘Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion’.

Heat stress fears for migrant workers persist ahead of Qatar World Cup

With the tournament just months away, health experts say new heat stress legislation isn’t enough to protect workers

By Tansy Hoskins

/ 6 Jun 2022

Heat stress fears for migrant workers persist ahead of Qatar World Cup

Can urban mining help to save the planet?

Recycling rare metals from our waste could help us to reduce extractive mining. But urban mining's value depends on how it’s done

By Tansy Hoskins

/ 15 Mar 2022

Can urban mining help to save the planet?

Violence against women garment workers increased during pandemic

Women workers experienced more verbal, physical and sexual violence under COVID-19, reveals report into garment factories in six Asian countries

By Tansy Hoskins

/ 18 Feb 2022

Violence against women garment workers increased during pandemic

Report says soldiers shot three dead at Myanmar factory making US cowboy boots

A labour rights organisation says the soldiers also arrested 17 outside the shoe factory – for asking for wages

By Tansy Hoskins, Dil Afrose Jahan, Nidia Bautista and Juan Mayorga

/ 17 Jun 2021

Report says soldiers shot three dead at Myanmar factory making US cowboy boots

'They left us starving': How the fashion industry abandoned its workers

Fashion brands must end exploitation in supply chains and offer fair salaries and working conditions, say industry experts.

By Tansy Hoskins

/ 18 Jan 2021

'They left us starving': How the fashion industry abandoned its workers

Behind the shine: how the jewellery trade relies on minerals tainted with death

Leading companies are turning a blind eye to violence, exploitation and environmental destruction in the global mining industry.

By Tansy Hoskins

/ 4 Dec 2020

Behind the shine: how the jewellery trade relies on minerals tainted with death

'Useless' Deloitte accused of PPE failings amid COVID-19 deal secrecy

Revealed: British firms offering to make PPE say they were ignored – MPs demand transparency over major supply deal

By Peter Geoghegan and Tansy Hoskins

/ 13 May 2020

'Useless' Deloitte accused of PPE failings amid COVID-19 deal secrecy