Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Bangladesh after Rana Plaza
Redaktion: Saxena, Sanchita

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429771750
• Artikelnr.: 57077299

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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