About MADE IN BANGLADESH, CAMBODIA, AND SRI LANKA
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March 8, 2020Rehman Sobhan, Chairman, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Bangladesh:
Sanchita Saxena is to be commended on a work, which contextualizes the emerging tensions within a highly competitive global economy, particularly as they pertain to the workers within the garments industries of three important exporters, Bangladesh, Cambodia and Sri Lanka. Her work, drawing on some valuable primary research, should be of much value to not just researchers and policymakers but also to the workers of these industries.Edward Gresser, Assistant United States Trade Representative for Trade Policy and Economics:
Sanchita Saxena has a keen mind and a big heart. Her book offers the best of both. It’s a unique guide to the interaction of business, bureaucrats, activists, unions, and workers; the way their collisions make policy, and the nature of development. And it’s a challenge, complete with lots of practical ideas, to all of us to do better.William Milam, Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and former U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh:
Sanchita Saxena's insightful and perceptive book explains how the garment industry in many Asian countries not only weathered the storm predicted when the Multi Fiber Arrangement was phased out, but in fact exploited the opening to become prominent garment exporters in the world. Her analytic explanation for this success, through the concept of domestic coalitions of the important stakeholders, is creative and persuasive. And most exciting is the potential that domestic coalitions in industry might augment to full-fledged policy networks, perhaps to grow into the kind of inclusive political institutions that are the basis of modernization and real democracy.
About LABOR AND GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS
Selected book chapters are available at Sustainable Development Goals Online under Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth.
Featured on Shepard’s “The Best Books on Workers’ Rights in the Fashion Industry.” 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.
Edith Brown Weiss, University Professor, Georgetown University:
Professor Saxena’s timely book offers important insights into the need for accountability in the global supply chain and the difficulty in achieving it. The book is especially useful for university courses focused on strengthening justice for those producing the goods we buy.Alessandra Mezzadri, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, SOAS and author of “The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation, and Garments ‘Made in India’” (CUP, 2017):
The book is a compelling read, in at least three different respects. First, it provides an in-depth analysis of the Bangladeshi garment industry, its historical development and evolution, and its relation to capital and labour dynamics in Bangladesh. Second, it places current global policy initiatives under the microscope, and discusses their severe limitations in guaranteeing and improving labour standards in the global economy. Third, whist framed around Rana Plaza and Bangladesh, the book more broadly shows the limits of any top-down regulation of supply-chains capitalism, and of the perils this may entail. This book should be a must read for all scholars or students in development studies, labour studies, and globalisation and governance, and for analysts concerned with global supply chains, the global garment industry, and the politics and global regulation of labour standards.'Rebecca Prentice, Reader in Anthropology and International Development, University of Sussex and co-editor of, “Unmaking the Global Sweatshop: Health and Safety of the World's Garment Workers” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017):
An indispensable volume that tells us where we are with labour rights in global supply chains—and more importantly, where we are going.