Organizing garment workers in Bangladesh: kinship circles and the affective dimension of activism

References

• Ahmed, F., A. Greenleaf, and A. Sacks. 2014. “The Paradox of Export Growth in Areas of Weak Governance: The Case of the Ready Made Garment Sector in Bangladesh.” World Development 56: 258–271. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.11.001.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Alam, M. S., and K. Kaoru Natsuda. 2016. “The Competitive Factors of the Bangladeshi Garment Industry in the Post-MFA Era.” Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue Canadienne d'études du développement 37 (3): 316–336. doi:10.1080/02255189.2016.1157457.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ashraf, H., and R. Prentice. 2019. “Beyond Factory Safety: Labor Unions, Militant Protest, and the Accelerated Ambitions of Bangladesh’s Export Garment Industry.” Dialectical Anthropology 43: 93–107. doi:10.1007/s10624-018-9539-0.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• BILS (Bangladesh Institute for Labour Studies). 2009. Women’s Participation in Trade Unions in Bangladesh: Status, Barriers and Overcoming Strategies. https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—asia/—ro-bangkok/—ilo-dhaka/documents/publication/wcms_125374.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Bourdieu, P. 1986. “The Forms of Capital.” In Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, edited by J. G. Richardson, 241–258. New York: Greenwood Press.
   Google Scholar
• Choudry, A. A., and D. Kapoor. 2013. NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects. London: Zed Books.
   Google Scholar
• Chun, J. J. 2016. “The Affective Politics of the Precariat: Reconsidering Alternative Histories of Grassroots Worker Organising.” Global Labour Journal 7 (2): 136–147. https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v7i2.2483
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dannecker, P. 2000. “Collective Action, Organisation Building, and Leadership: Women Workers in the Garment Sector in Bangladesh.” Gender and Development 8 (3): 31–39. doi:10.1080/741923779.
   Google Scholar
• Feldman, S. 1997. “NGOS and Civil Society: (Un)stated Contradictions.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 554 (1): 46–65. doi:10.1177/0002716297554001004.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ferguson, J. 1994. The Anti-Politics Machine: ‘Development,’ Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hennessy, R. 2013. Fires on the Border: The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
   Google Scholar
• Human Rights Watch. 2015. “Whoever Raises Their Head Suffers the Most: Workers’ Rights in Bangladesh’s Garment Factories.” http://features.hrw.org/features/HRW_2015_reports/Bangladesh_Garment_Factories/.
   Google Scholar
• Huq, Chaumtoli. 2019. “Women’s ‘Empowerment’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry Through Labor Organizing.” Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies 20: 130–154. http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4020316
   Google Scholar
• Jad, I. 2007. “NGOS: Between Buzzwords and Social Movements.” Development in Practice 17 (4/5): 622–629. doi:10.1080/09614520701469781.
   Google Scholar
• Kabeer, N., S. Mahmud, and J. Isaza-Castro. 2012. “NGOs and the Political Empowerment of Poor People in Rural Bangladesh: Cultivating the Habits of Democracy?” World Development 40: 2044–2062. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.05.011.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kabeer, Naila, and Simeen Mahmud. 2004. “Rags, Riches and Women Workers: Export Oriented Garment Manufacturing in Bangladesh.” In Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers and Workers with Global Markets, edited by Marilyn Carr, 133–164. London: Commonwealth Secretariat.
   Google Scholar
• Paul-Majumder, P., and A. Begum. 2006. Engendering Garment Industry: The Bangladesh Context Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dhaka: The University Press Limited.
   Google Scholar
• Quayyum, N. 2019. “Women Workers in Bangladesh’s Readymade Garment Industry: Building an Infrastructure of Dissent.” Journal of Labor and Society 22 (4): 835–852. doi:10.1111/wusa.12441.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rahman, S. 2006. “Development, Democracy and the NGO Sector: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh.” Journal of Developing Societies 22 (4): 451–473. doi:10.1177/0169796X06072650.
   Google Scholar
• Rahman, Z. 2011. “Labour Unions and Labour Movements in the Readymade Garment Industry in Bangladesh in the Era of Globalization (1980–2009).” Unpublished doctoral diss., University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
   Google Scholar
• Saxena, S. 2019. Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia: Bangladesh After Rana Plaza. London: Taylor & Francis.
   Google Scholar