“…On the basis of other similar cases 5 and the way in which a whole range of international commitments to suppliers and garment workers melted into air at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic (see for example, Anner, 2020), there is justification to believe the Bravo case is in no way isolated or exceptional. Rather, the case is an example of the fundamental disconnections and contradictions in the political economy of the value chain (Thompson, 2003; that allow, nay promote, the downgrading of workers' conditions and their capacity to organise (see also for example Anner, 2015a;Bartley, 2018a;Hammer and Plugor, 2019;Selwyn, 2017;Smith et al, 2018;Mezzadri, 2017).…”