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Creating a local managerial regime in global context: The case of the Bangladesh ready-made garment sector

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Sawlat Zaman

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© 2024 The Author(s). Industrial Relations Journal published by Brian Towers (BRITOW) and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This article analyses the strategic construction of a factory management regime as an instrument of local value extraction, set against an intensely competitive global value chain in the apparel sector. The article focuses on Bangladesh where, as elsewhere, work in ready-made garment factories is characterised by long hours, poor pay, hostility to freedom of association and the suppression of independent collective bargaining. This article presents a long-term study of the ways that managers who preside over such environments are identified, recruited and deployed. In the context of the global value chain in garments, this article shines a light on managerial regimes which squeeze labour and perpetuate inequality as part of extracting value at workplace level, in the context of a broader, internationally dispersed, industrial regime of exploitation.

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Author(s): Zaman S, Jenkins J

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Industrial Relations Journal

Year: 2024

Pages: ePub ahead of Print

Online publication date: 16/08/2024

Acceptance date: 07/08/2024

Date deposited: 27/08/2024

ISSN (print): 0019-8692

ISSN (electronic): 1468-2338

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.

URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12443

DOI: 10.1111/irj.12443

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