Cheap Wine, Bitter Aftertaste - WINE EXPORTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO GERMANY

In the first section, supply chain, what kinds of trade union organization exist the structure of the supply chain from the vineyards along the supply chain, and how conflicts between the in South Africa through to the retailers in Germany is various stakeholders within the supply chain are resolved outlined and analysed in terms of how the buying power (Selwyn 2019; Luig 2019). [...] The powerful players on the South African side are the Photo: Chris Troch Photography/iStockphoto major exporters, who pass on the pressure to the upper segments of the chain; they are profitable as long as they can outsource the high costs and risks entailed in storage and quality control to the winegrowers. [...] Based on this information, it is on board” means that the costs associated with logistics possible to calculate what shares of the retail price of a and transport within the country of production—up to bottle of wine are retained on average by the farm and the point where the product leaves the port—are already its workers. [...] The system has its origins in apartheid: a number of which played an important role in the spread labour recruitment agencies organized the migration of the Black labour of the Western Cape farm workers’ strike of 2012 and 2013 force into the mines and industrial plants of the white apartheid economy. [...] 22 WORKING CONDITIONS ALONG THE SUPPLY CHAIN Private Sustainability Standards The Western Cape farm workers’ strike of 2012 and and raising the number and quality of official inspections, 2013 made the extent of exploitation and labour law the responsibility for defining and implementing social violations in the province visible to the rest of the country standards was transferred to.