1st Edition
Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia Bangladesh after Rana Plaza
1 Introduction: How Do We Understand the Rana Plaza Disaster and What Needs to be Done to Prevent Future Tragedies, Sanchita Banerjee Saxena; Part I Leading to the Disaster; 2 The Longue Durée and the Promise of Export-Led Development: Readymade Garment Manufacturing in Bangladesh, Shelley Feldman and Jakir Hossain; 3 Off the Radar: Subcontracting in Bangladesh's RMG Industry, Sanchita Banerjee Saxena and Dorothee Baumann-Pauly; Part II Dealing with the Aftermath; 4 Opportunities and Limitations of the Accord: Need for a Worker Organizing Model, Chaumtoli Huq; 5 Does Third-Party Monitoring Improve Labour Rights? The Case of Cambodia, Kristy Ward; 6 Spaces of Exception: National Interest and the Labor of Sedition, Dina M. Siddiqi; Part III Rethinking Solutions in Bangladesh; 7 Bangladesh’s Private Sector: Beyond Tragedies and Challenges, Rubana Huq; 8 Post-Rana Plaza Responses: Changing Role of the Bangladeshi Government, Shahidur Rahman; 9 Behavior of the Buyers and Suppliers in the Post-Rana Plaza Period: A Decent Work Perspective, Khondaker Golam Moazzem; 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, Meenu Tewari; 11 Emerging Solutions To The Global Labor Transparency Problem, Kohl Gill and Ayush Khanna; 12 Fast Fashion, Production Targets, and Gender-Based Violence in Asian Garment Supply Chains, Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee; 13 The Evolving Politics of Labor Standards in Bangladesh: Taking Stock and Looking Forward, Naila Kabeer
Biography
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.
