Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia: Bangladesh After Rana Plaza

ISBN-13: 9781032091648 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 292 str.

Sanchita Saxena

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: How do we understand the Rana Plaza disaster and what needs to be done to prevent future tragedies;  Part I Leading to the disaster; 2 The Longue Durée and the Promise of Export-Led Development: Readymade Garment Manufacturing in Bangladesh;  3 Off the radar: Subcontracting in Bangladesh's RMG industry; Part II Dealing with the aftermath; 4 Opportunities and Limitations of the Accord: Need for a Worker Organizing Model;  5 Does third-party monitoring improve labor rights? The case of Cambodia;  6 Spaces of Exception: National Interest and the Labor of Sedition;  Part III Rethinking solutions in Bangladesh; 7 Bangladesh’s Private Sector: Beyond tragedies and challenges;  8 Post-Rana Plaza responses: Changing role of the Bangladeshi government;  9 Behavior of the Buyers and Suppliers in the Post-Rana Plaza Period: A Decent Work Perspective;  Part IV Rethinking solutions: from an international perspective; 10 Can Place-based network contracting foster decent work in informal segments of global garment chains? Lessons from Mewat, India;  11 Emerging solutions to the global labor transparency problem;  12 Fast Fashion, Production Targets, and Gender-Based Violence in Asian Garment Supply Chains;  Part V A way forward; 13 The evolving politics of labor standards in Bangladesh: taking stock and looking forward

O autorze

Sanchita Banerjee Saxena is the Executive Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies and the Director of the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.