The Power to Choose : Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka
by
Naila Kabeer
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1859842062
ISBN-13
9781859842065
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 17th, 2002
Print length
484 Pages
Weight
422 grams
Dimensions
18.20 x 12.40 x 0.40 cms
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In this study, the author examines the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers to shed light on the question of what constitutes 'fair' competition, by comparing and contrasting the respective working practices of Bangladesh and Britain, with surprising and revealing results.
In this path-breaking study, social economist Naila Kabeer examines the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers in Bangladesh and Britain to shed light on the question of what constitutes “fair” competition in international trade. She argues that if the unhealthy coalition of multinationals and labor movements is truly seeking to improve the working conditions for women and children in the “Third World,” as well as those of western workers, their efforts should be directed away from an attempt to impose labor standards and towards a support for the organization of labor rights. Any attempt to devise acceptable labor standards at an international level which takes no account of the forces of inclusion and exclusion with local labor movements is, she further argues, likely to represent the interests of the powerful at the expense of those of the weak.
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