This paper provides a first-hand account of the reasons underpinning the exploitation of Ready-Made Garments (RMG) workers in Bangalore by integrating their lived experiences at work and beyond with the supply chain, dysfunctional labor laws and lack of trade union mobilization. These rural...

In Bangladesh, around 4 million garment workers are working in more than five thousand garment factories all around the country. Most of the factories are situated in Dhaka and Chittagong divisions in Bangladesh along with the membership of BGMEA (Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exports...

The role of the Ready-made Garment (RMG) sector in transforming the lives of working women in Bangladesh has been controversial. This study examines the impact of paid employment in the RMG sector on the empowerment of its female workers. The fieldwork includes semi-structured interviews with...

The COVID-19 pandemic brings uncertainty in many ways in lifestyle to lower-income communities in Bangladesh. We have explored qualitatively to understand the situation of such a lower-income group as Ready-Made Garments (RMG) workers in Bangladesh. The study before the pandemic on RMG workers...

We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003 - March 2004) period,...