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...

"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 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,...

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...

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...

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...

Ready Made Garment (RMG) industry of Bangladesh is the highest foreign earning sector of the country. It is the second largest exporter in the world after China. There are 4.20 million workers working in this sector in about 5000 companies where more than 90% of workers are female who came from...

The primary objective of the study is to identify the glass ceiling issues and career barriers for female employees to access into the leadership positions in Ready-Made Garments (RMG) organisations in Bangladesh. This exploratory study used semi-structured face-to-face interview methods for...

In last few decades, Bangladesh Readymade Garment (RMG) Industry of Bangladesh has become a leading manufacturing industry in the world with its constant growth. The Industry is of major importance to the national economy of Bangladesh as it contributes more than 80% of the country's export...

This paper develops a conceptual framework of technological change and its impact on textile and garment workers in developing countries based on an extensive literature review. It proposes human resource development (HRD) strategies for adapting the change efficiently so that the negative...

The handloom industry in India is an ancient industry in the world that produces unique handloom products on the domestic as well as global level with geographical indication. It is a highly unorganized sector that provides the highest employment opportunities in the country next to the...

"Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the "Gossard Girls," women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ispheming and Gwinn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. Particularly as the Upper Peninsula's mines were exhausted and its stands of timber...

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The RMG industry of Bangladesh is the main sector of foreign earnings. There are more than 4,000 garment companies in the country. More than 75 per cent of the foreign earnings come from this sector. More than four million workers are working.in this industry of which 90 per cent is women coming...

This paper examines the effect of technological change on job security, job satisfaction,,work relations s and the overall socioeconomic situation of medium and lower skilled workers in Thailand. It also investigates the influence of job security, job satisfaction and work relations on the...

Readymade garment industry is the prime foreign earning industry of Bangladesh where more than 4.2 million workers are working of which 90% workers are female who come from the rural areas of the country. The working conditions and the working lives of these female workers are hardly up to the...

Readymade garment industry is the prime foreign earning industry of Bangladesh where more than 4.2 million workers are working of which 90% workers are female who come from the rural areas of the country. The working conditions and the working lives of these female workers are hardly up to the...

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...

Housing markets of large cities around the world, particularly in so-called developing and emerging countries, are currently experiencing a clash: On the one hand, large numbers of labour migrants arrive from rural areas and need cheap rental housing. On the other hand, international real estate...

The study reveals that, Readymade Garment (RMG) sector has positively influenced the socio-economic condition of women garment workers. Employment opportunities for women in the garment industry have created the scope to cross the threshold of economic space. In Bangladesh, the readymade garment...

The Ready-Made Garment (RMG) industry is a significant sector for the Bangladeshi economy. Worth US$ 24.6 billion, it employs 3.6 million workers and positions Bangladesh as the second largest exporter in the world. Low cost production has made the Bangladesh RMG industry attractive to Western...

This paper develops a conceptual framework of technological change and its impact on textile and garment workers in developing countries based on an extensive literature review. It proposes human resource development (HRD) strategies for adapting the change efficiently so that the negative...

Global technological change has significant impact on lower skilled female textile and garment workers in Thailand, as it brings new machines and manufacturing processes into the company. This study aims at identifying the factors of global technological change on female textile and garment...