Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia
Title | Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Sanchita Saxena |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2019-06-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0429771754 |
This book argues that larger flaws in the global supply chain must first be addressed to change the way business is conducted to prevent factory owners from taking deadly risks to meet clients’ demands in the garment industry in Bangladesh. Using the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster as a departure point, and to prevent such tragedies from occurring in the future, this book presents an interdisciplinary analysis to address the disaster which resulted in a radical change in the functioning of the garment industry. The chapters present innovative ways of thinking about solutions that go beyond third-party monitoring. They open up possibilities for a renewed engagement of international brands and buyers within the garment sector, a focus on direct worker empowerment using technology, the role of community-based movements, developing a model of change through enforceable contracts combined with workers movements, and a more productive and influential role for both factory owners and the government. This book makes key interventions and rethinks the approaches that have been taken until now and proposes suggestions for the way forward. It engages with international brands, the private sector, and civil society to strategize about the future of the industry and for those who depend on it for their livelihood. A much-needed review and evaluation of the many initiatives that have been set up in Bangladesh in the wake of Rana Plaza, this book is a valuable addition to academics in the fields of development studies, gender and women’s studies, human rights, poverty and practice, political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, and South Asian studies.
Broken Promises of Globalization
Title | Broken Promises of Globalization PDF eBook |
Author | Shahidur Rahman |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2013-12-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0739178350 |
Broken Promises of Globalization: The Case of the Bangladesh Garment Industry analyzes the consequences of the latest wave of globalization within the context of the Bangladesh garment industry's integration into world markets and production chains. Shahidur Rahman has found that although globalization has created opportunities, the process of globalization has also triggered a deformed development leaving Bangladesh increasingly vulnerable to shifts and tensions within the world trading regime. Bangladesh’s vulnerability, experienced as a constraining framework by all the major actors in dependent industrialization, is of particular importance to the progress both of workers and of Bangladesh’s industrializing modernizers in the garment industry. This book intends to respond to three questions. First, has the garment industry been able to counteract the vulnerability that women garment workers had experienced in their villages? Second, is the formation of a welfare committee a substitute model for unions when it comes to protecting women’s rights? Finally, how is a Least Developing Country dealing with both domestic and external pressures in its response to globalization? Rahman argues that in spite of the opportunities created by the growth of the garment industry, the key actors such as workers, entrepreneurs, unions, and even the government have become vulnerable in the process of the global integration of this industry. This is an ethnographic study that tells the story of the rise, growth, and demise of a Bangladeshi garment company. From a broader approach, an internal force such as the government of Bangladesh is not alone in being responsible for pushing the workers into a vulnerable position; external pressure on the state is also responsible for intensifying the vulnerability of Bangladeshi institutions and actors. Broken Promises of Globalization exposes the crisis Bangladeshi garment companies face as a result of the momentous pressures emanating from the regime of neo-liberal globalization. This ethnographic study, exploring a wide range of contemporary and recent development issues, holds particular relevance for students and scholars of sociology, political science, political economics, labor, and development studies.
Garment Workers in Bangladesh
Title | Garment Workers in Bangladesh PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 64 |
Release | 2015 |
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Between Conformity and Resistance
Title | Between Conformity and Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | Petra Dannecker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Women clothing workers |
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The Power to Choose
Title | The Power to Choose PDF eBook |
Author | Naila Kabeer |
Publisher | Verso |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 2002-08-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781859842065 |
Naila Kabeer examines the lives of women workers in different urban centers to shed light on the question of what constitutes 'fair' competition in international trade.
Garment Workers in Bangladesh
Title | Garment Workers in Bangladesh PDF eBook |
Author | Salma Chaudhuri Zohir |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Clothing workers |
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Health Status of the Garment Workers in Bangladesh
Title | Health Status of the Garment Workers in Bangladesh PDF eBook |
Author | Pratima Paul-Majumder |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Clothing workers |
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