Spain : the fashion sector mobilizes to promote the corporate social responsibility

Specific measures for small firms. The participants also recalled that CSR policies are a necessity not only in third countries but also in Spain and Portugal where a host of small workshops operate in conditions not controlled by the labor inspectorate. The Fedecom representatives outlined the difficulties in mobilizing a sector highly fragmented in small and very small firms where subcontracting complicates the usual channels of control. The spokesman of the Labor Commissions, Joaquin Gonzalez, stressed that CSR has a high cost hard to bear by small firms. Hence the importance he places in the application of specific measures adapted to the means and possibilities of small almost family structures pragmatic  policy and warned that the real implementation of corporate social responsibility will call for deep change in corporate management and culture.