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Labour Rights at Global Manufacturing: The Case of Women Garment Workers in Bangladesh
Md. Ismail Hossain
Abstract

The issue of labour rights is a controversial issue in the age of globalisation, and fulfilling these rights is essential to workers’ survival. While many scholars have argued that the expansion of global manufacturing is enhancing social justice through providing employment opportunities for women, others have claimed that economic globalisation is less likely to expand freedom and labour justice since global manufacturing enterprises are mostly characterized by violations of labour rights. Drawing on Amartya Sen’s ‘social justice’ approach and based on an empirical evidence from the Bangladesh Readymade Garment (RMG) industry, this study found that labour practices at global factories are uneven and unfair, yet employment in this sector is necessary for survival, particularly for women workers. The labour rights can be improved if all concerned actors work as responsible agent.

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