"This book looks at the dynamic relationship between women's productive and reproductive work in a Global South country from a Global South perspective. Applying a feminist political economy and historical materialist approach and building on an ethnographic extended case study, it analyses the...

We study relational contracts among managers using unique data that tracks transfers of workers across teams in Indian ready-made garment factories. We focus on how relational contracts help managers cope with worker absenteeism shocks, which are frequent, often large, weakly correlated across...

The Bangladeshi garment sector is a leading garment manufacturing industry in the world that has been growing constantly during the last decades. Today the garment sector represent the 80% of the national export and counts USD 19 billions revenues; these numbers describe the sector as the most...

In India the handloom industry is one of the major cottage industries. It is one of the labour concentrated industry and the second largest employment generator after agriculture in the rural sectors of the economy. It is generating employment opportunities and supporting livelihood to the...

In economic based developing country needs more constructions. In fact it occupies a pivotal position in the development project of all sectors, like agriculture, rural development, energy, industry, transportation, communication or housing. Construction industry boom can be seen in almost all...