Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia

By Sanchita Banerjee Saxena ,

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This book argues that larger flaws in the global supply chain must first be addressed to change the way business is conducted to prevent factory owners from taking deadly risks to meet clients' demands in the garment industry in Bangladesh.

Using the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster as a departure point,…

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1 author picked Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is an anthology of work about the Bangladeshi garment industry in the months and years following the Rana Plaza factory collapse that killed 1,138 people. It is rigorous academic work that doesn’t shy away from asking hard questions, and which seeks to tackle the gigantic problem of how to end exploitation in the garment industry.

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