Bangladesh garments industries created opportunities by creating employment for millions of workers. The export sector is playing a major role for increasing countries Gross Domestic Growth, GDP. The export sector raises income and employment within the country. The garment workers contribute a lot to the society and they work all day long. The workers need support to get worker's rights and to improve employment situation within the factory. Bangladesh needs to improve garment workers conditions and responsive about the impact of globalization. Bangladeshi garment industries face the challenges of globalization and should compete in the global market. The deprivation of garment worker's right might be the loss in garment industry to show the labor standard position in the near future. This book examine the changes of worker's employment situation within the changing scenario of global competition for the garment sector.

The Ready-made Garments (RMG) sector in Bangladesh has been playing a vital role in generating employment opportunity for last two decades. At present, around 5600 factories are operating in this country and 4.2 million workers are working in this sector. More than 82% of Bangladesh's export earnings come from the garment industry. This paper focuses on measuring and comparing the level of job satisfaction between inside EPZ garment factories' workers and outside EPZ garment factories' workers considering the dissimilar laws and rules in Bangladesh. In this study, the sample consisted of 180 respondents, which is randomly selected from two inside EPZ garment factories and two outside EPZ garment factories. These workers were surveyed through convenience sampling with structured questionnaire from May to June 2016 concentrating the key influential factors that significantly impact on their level of satisfaction. The statistical computer package SPSS was used to analyze the data. This study revealed that inside EPZ garments factories' workers are satisfied with their working environment and yearly increment. On the other hand, outside EPZ garment factories' workers are satisfied toward their working environment and earned leave. However, both the areas workers are dissatisfied regarding the supervisor's attitudes. Finally, the recommendations were provided based on the findings of the study.

There is a paramount importance of Job Satisfaction of the employees of an organization for the smooth functioning of its work. It has substantial impact on workers' performance. RMG workers of Bangladesh are enormous in number and instrumental to the economic growth of Bangladesh. But the salary and other benefits of these workers are very low compared to that of other industrial sectors. Sometimes, the salary and benefits are not even paid on time to the workers. As a result, a serious concern has been raised by the national and international stakeholders about the job satisfaction of RMG workers. Therefore, this study aims at identifying the job satisfaction factors of the RMG workers and providing suggestions for the improvement of present situation. For analyzing data multivariate analysis techniques are used by using Smart PLS, and SPSS. Salary and benefits, supervisor's behavior, work and family life, working condition and the working environment are identified as factors having influence on job satisfaction of RMG workers in Bangladesh. Results show that the salary and benefits, supervisor's behavior, work and family life are significantly related to the job satisfaction of the workers. This study suggests that for ensuring job satisfaction of the RMG workers in Bangladesh the policy makers should focus more on salary and benefits, supervisors' behavior, and work and family life of the workers.

This book portrays the scene where corporate international trade agreements, a new neoliberal state regime, and a growing textile market have contributed to the becoming of a new class of Muslim female workers—who labor in Bangladesh’s apparel export factories under conditions of neoliberal capitalism. The garment kormi—often abstracted by the homogenizing category of the “garment worker”—remain lost in the statistics of development and empowerment or contrarily exploitation. Thereby, focusing on the everyday lives of garment kormi, i.e., workers’ stories than on the collective of garment workers as a category, this book at one front highlights the neoliberal structures of difference and inequality, and on the other reflects on the potential of egalitarianism and change in terms of novel ways of comprising and expressing life-worlds. It shows that the values in life and the structures that govern life, such as contemporary Bangladesh’s neoliberal order, kinship relationality, and religiosity, are co-constitutive, multi-layered, and always on the move, never fixed.

By drawing up a model of the internal communication system of Bangladeshi ready-made garment factories, Helene Blumer identifies the existence and intensity of its communication flows. She furthermore discloses a connection from this communication system to labor unrest. The absence of a functioning formal channel within the factory, the lack of effective labor representation and the rare physical presence of the factory owners confirm the existence of a communication barrier. As symptom of a flawed communication system, this barrier confirms a connection to labor unrest and the management’s unawareness of its emergence, which would thwart any modes to predict and prevent work disruptions.

Readymade garment industry is the prime sector of foreign earnings of Bangladesh. There are more than 4,500 garment companies are operating in Bangladesh. More than 80% of the foreign earnings are coming from this sector. At present, four million workers are working in this sector in which 90% are rural women. It is claimed by the employers that the garment companies have helped to develop the socio-economic status of the rural women employed in this sector. Hence, this paper aims at identifying the socio-economic status factors of the garment workers of Bangladesh. This study suggests that housing, water and sanitation conditions, medical facilities and first aid treatment, wages, social status, adaptation of cultural values and norms, attachment with labor unions, ownership arrangement, leave with pay and overtime are significantly related to the socio-economic status of the garments workers of Bangladesh. This study recommends that the measures for improving the socio-economic status of the women workers are related to the improvement of their housing conditions, education, health and sanitation, and the favorable service rules for the women workers.

Examines a wide range of practical methods for increasing employeeinvolvement and brings together the best of each approach into acomprehensive model for implementing participative management atall levels in organizations.