Bangladeshi garment workers

Content about struggles of garment workers in Bangladesh in the 2000s and 2010s.

Bangladeshi garment workers' protest, 2013.

Bangladeshi garment workers' protest, 2013.

Garment workers protest - Jan 2019

Wage battles erupt in the Bangladeshi garment sector – and unions can’t contain them

The past two weeks have seen mass walkouts and wildcat strikes by thousands of garment workers…

Garment workers protest - Ashulia, Dec 2016

Behind the camouflage; a new strike wave in the Bangladeshi garment sector

Following a period of relative quiet after the 2013 Rana Plaza factory disaster, new struggles…

Striking Tuba workers

The binds that tie: unions, ‘solidarity’, civil society and foreign policy in Bangladesh

A look at the new unions emerging as part of the reforms of the garment industry –…

Garment worker

Highs and lows of a wage rise - the new garment minimum wage

The Bangladeshi minimum wage board has, after long negotiations, announced a 76% increase in garment…

Striking Bangladeshi garment workers win a 77% pay rise

Following a four day shutdown of hundreds of factories by strikes and a series of violent…

Who can ride the garment tiger?

On Saturday September 21st there began a 10 day mass agitation by Bangladeshi Ready Made Garment(RMG) workers demanding a 170% increase in their…

'All Enterprises' Factory on fire, Baldia Town, Karchi, September 2012

A stitch in time: the ‘orchestrated networks’ of bloody Taylorism - John Barker

An analysis of the global clothing supply chain, its technology and organisation of labour; it's…

A woman, Shefali, learns of the discovery of her sister's corpse.

The legacy of the dead - the Savar collapse, part 2

The site of the Dhaka factory collapse is now cleared; new concessions and reforms are announced. Some further reflections...

The house of cards: the Savar building collapse

A detailed account and analysis of the latest human disaster in the Bangladeshi garment industry - a poorly constructed factory building…

Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers strike after factory collapse

Hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike on Thursday in protest at the deaths of hundreds of…

Death-trapped in a burning cage - the Ashulia inferno

Comments on the horrific fire of Saturday 24th November 2012 that swept through a Bangladeshi…

Bangladeshi workers fight back against corrupt bosses

15,000 Bangladeshi garment workers blockade a key highway in protest at unpaid wages. Meanwhile,…