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The making (and unmaking) of a militant economist : Leo Wolman’s reminiscences from the Columbia Oral History Collection, part I, from Johns Hopkins to the amalgamated Clothing Workers Union of America

Fiorito, Luca; Fiduccia, Fabio - 2025

This paper investigates what may be termed the "Wolman problem": the striking discontinuity in Leo Wolman's attitude toward and relationship with American unionism. Drawing on Wolman's recorded reminiscences from 1957-1960, we present a documentary account that foregrounds his own narrative of...

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Hitze und Rechte von Textilabeiter:innen : Gestaltung eines gerechten Wandels

2025

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Behind the seams : understanding labor conditions in the Argentine garment sector through worker experiences

2024

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The Harwood Manufacturing Corporation and the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union : a case of role reversal

Burnes, Bernard; Burke, W. Warner - 2024

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Women's productive and reproductive labour : class and gender inequalities in Turkey

Arslan, Ayşe - 2024

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Women's productive and reproductive labour : class and gender inequalities in Turkey

Arslan, Ayşe - 2024

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Invisible Scars : Female Ready-made Garment Workers' Gendered Exploitation

Raman, A. V.; Krishnan, LRK - 2023

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...

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Impacts on the lives and livelihoods of factory workers during COVID-19 : a gender-sensitive analysis

Roth Vathana; Benghong, Siela Bossba - 2023

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Coping strategies of ready-made garments workers in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic : a qualitative assessment

Rahman, Kazi Mahmudur; Basak, Kishore Kumer; Sayed, … - 2024

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Absenteeism, productivity, and relational contracts inside the firm

Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Gauthier, Jean-Francois; Nyshadham, Anant - 2024

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Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm

Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Gauthier, Jean-Francois; Nyshadham, Anant - 2021

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Absenteeism, productivity, and relational contracts inside the firm

Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Gauthier, Jean-Francois; Nyshadham, Anant - 2021

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Problematizing state capacity : the Rwandan case

Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James Alan - 2023

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Ideal bureaucracy? The application and assessment process for social housing in three Australian states

Morris, Alan G.; Robinson, Catherine; Idle, Jan; … - 2024

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Stories Beneath Needle : Understanding Ready Made Garment Workers of Bangladesh

Rony, Rahat Jahangir; Zaman, Kimia Tuz; Ahmed, Nova - 2023

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...

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Ascetic protestantism as fatal strategy: religious-economic conflict and the implosion of cultural value

Goff, Graham C. - 2024

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The paradoxical impacts of the minimum wage implementation on ready-made garment (RMG) workers : a qualitative study

Kabir, Humayun; Maple, Myfanwy; Islam, Md. Shahidul; … - 2022

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Organizing garment workers in Bangladesh : kinship circles and the affective dimension of activism

Quayyum, Nausheen - 2023

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Technology-based Support for Ready Made Garment Workers in Bangladesh : Understanding their Lives before and during COVID-19 Pandemic

Rony, Rahat Jahangir; Ahmed, Nova - 2022

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...

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Militant minority at work : a successful case of unionisation of garment workers in Istanbul

Birelma, Alpkan - 2023

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The impact of paid employment on women's empowerment : a case study of female garment workers in Bangladesh

Al Mamun, Md. Abdullah; Hoque, Md Mahmudul - 2022

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...

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The Dutch hatmakers of late medieval and Tudor London : with an edition of their bilingual guild ordinances

McSheffrey, Shannon; Putter, Ad - 2023

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From scarce resources to ‘the good economy’: a new ‘version of economization’ replacing Weber’s rational ascetism as the capitalist spirit?

Asdal, Kristin - 2022

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Validating a work-related well-being model in handloom weavers

Sushmita Singh; Singh, Sushil K. - 2023

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The impact of COVID-19 on the lives of garment workers in Central Bangladesh

Rabbani, Atonu; Uckat, Hannah; Woodruff, Christopher - 2021

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What skills training do Cambodian garment workers need?

Chea, Vatana; You, Saokeo Khantey; Song Sopheak - 2021

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Worn out : how our clothes cover up fashion's sins

Hardy, Alyssa - 2022

New arrivals -- Made in America -- Where was fashion's #MeToo? -- The illusion of choice -- Influenced -- The secret behind the logo -- Green is the new black -- Outside the factory -- "It's not that serious" -- These stories are real.

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The Socio- Economic Conditions of Handloom Weavers in Vellore District of Tamil Nadu

Chinnu, Dr. C. Sivakkolundu; Sheeba, P. - 2021

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...

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The Socio- Economic Conditions of Handloom Weavers in Vellore District of Tamil Nadu

Chinnu, Dr. C. Sivakkolundu - 2021

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A Wesleyan work ethic? : entrepreneurship and Weber's protestant work ethic in the case of Isaac Holden : c. 1807-1897

Hollow, Matthew - 2022

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The Problem of Women Handloom Weavers in Walaja Block of Tamil Nadu

Chinnu, Dr. C. Sivakkolundu; Sheeba, P. - 2021

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...

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Securing the separation between state and finance : entanglements between securitization and societal differentiation

Langenohl, Andreas - 2022

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Trade Union of Garments Worker : Theory & Practice

FAISAL, ABRAR - 2021

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...

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Odyssey of a socialist in the business school world

Adler, Paul S. - 2022

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Performance Spillovers and Social Network in the Workplace : Evidence from Rural and Urban Weavers in a Chinese Textile Firm

Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2021

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,...

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Factors Influencing The Problems Faced By Handloom Weavers In Erode and Karur Districts of Tamil Nadu – A Study

P, BALAKRISHNAN - 2022

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...

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Influencing Factors of Working Environment of Female Ready-made Garment Workers in Bangladesh : A Review of Existing Literature

Islam, Nazrul - 2020

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...

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The Impact of Technological Change on Textile and Garment Workers in Developing Countries : HRD Strategies

Islam, Nazrul; Swierczek, Fredric William - 2022

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...

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The Impact of Technological Change on Textile and Garment Workers in Developing Countries : HRD Strategies

Islam, Nazrul - 2016

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Weber revisited : a literature review on the possible link between protestantism, entrepreneurship and economic growth

Grytten, Ola Honningdal - 2020

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Household's income and occupational diversification of Ikat handloom weavers : view from two clusters of Western Odisha

Meher, Surendra - 2022

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The Glass Ceiling : Career Barriers for Female Employees in the Ready Made Garments (RMG) Industry of Bangladesh

Islam, Md Asadul - 2019

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...

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We kept our towns going : the Gossard girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Wong, Phyllis Michael - 2022

"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 securitized workplace: document protection, insider threats and emerging ethnographic barriers in a South Korean organization

Prentice, Michael M. - 2021

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The Effect of Work Stress on the Performance of Readymade Garment Workers in Bangladesh

Islam, Nazrul - 2019

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...

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How well does government microcredit serve the investment needs of small and medium enterprises? : An impact analysis on handloom weavers in Bangladesh

Parvin, Tania; Birner, Regina; Nahar, Ashrafun - 2021

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Recessions, mortality, and migration bias : evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine

Arth, Vellore; Beach, Brian; Hanlon, W. Walker - 2019

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The Impact of Technological Change on Textile and Garment Workers in Developing Countries : HRD Strategies

Islam, Nazrul; Swierczek, Fredric William - 2022

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The Impact of Technological Change on Textile and Garment Workers in Developing Countries : HRD Strategies

Islam, Nazrul - 2016

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Crafting a future : stories of Indian textiles and sustainable practices

Shah, Archana - 2021

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Socioeconomic Conditions of Readymade Garment Workers in Bangladesh

Islam, Nazrul - 2018

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...

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Development undone : Weber, Kafka and the organisation of supply-side vested interests

Blunt, Peter - 2021

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The Impact of Global Technological Change on Medium and Lower Skilled Textile and Garment Workers in Thailand

Islam, Nazrul - 2018

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...

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Seasonal variation in production, household composition and earnings in cottage manufacture : evidence from women weavers employed by a mid-19th century Yorkshire firm

Heinicke, Craig - 2021

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Missing work : absenteeism at Pepperell Manufacturing Co. in 1883

Burnette, Joyce - 2021

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Working Conditions and Lives of Female Readymade Garment Workers in Bangladesh

Islam, Nazrul - 2018

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...

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Working Conditions and Lives of Female Readymade Garment Workers in Bangladesh

Islam, Nazrul; Ghosh, Suntu Kumar; Islam, Anika; Salam, … - 2018

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