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Book SynopsisBroken Promises of Globalization: The Case of the Bangladesh Garment Industry analyzes the consequences of the latest wave of globalization within the context of the Bangladesh garment industry''s integration into world markets and production chains. Shahidur Rahman has found that although globalization has created opportunities, the process of globalization has also triggered a deformed development leaving Bangladesh increasingly vulnerable to shifts and tensions within the world trading regime. Bangladesh's vulnerability, experienced as a constraining framework by all the major actors in dependent industrialization, is of particular importance to the progress both of workers and of Bangladesh's industrializing modernizers in the garment industry. This book intends to respond to three questions. First, has the garment industry been able to counteract the vulnerability that women garment workers had experienced in their villages? Second, is the formation of a welfare committee a substi
Trade ReviewThis book offers a timely corrective, yet far from eulogising the textile sector as the motor of radical social and economic transformation. * South Asia Research *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Bangladesh: A Long History of Vulnerability Chapter 2: Garments Industry: An Unchartered Territory in an Impoverished Country Chapter 3: Defining Vulnerability: A Case Study Chapter 4: Welfare Committee or Trade Union: Does it matter? Chapter 5: Challenges and Responses Chapter 6: The Dilemma of Government Chapter 7: Roadmap Ahead List of Acronyms Bibliography
