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Bangladesh’s Most Vulnerable: Women Garment Workers

Aleman, Daniela
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The fashion industry in the late twentieth century saw a shift from national manufacturing to outsource manufacturing. This business model requires mass consumption and mass production adhering to tight deadlines. This system enables fashion companies to maximize their profits at the expense of garment workers in developing countries, especially women workers in major garment exporting countries such as Bangladesh. This thesis aims to present the results of research done on the Ready-Made Garment industry (RMG) in Bangladesh and answers to the question: how has mass consumption in the fashion industry affected major manufacturing countries like Bangladesh and their workforce? This research question is tracing the history of the modern fashion system and of mass consumption, mass production, and the exploitation of garment workers from the point of view of Marxist theorists. In doing so, this paper focuses on female workers in the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh. As well as focusing on how the industry was established by including specific quantitative and descriptive data regarding the female workforce. The research conducted demonstrates that mass production practices have proven harmful and deadly to Bangladesh’s female garment workforce.
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Thesis (B.A. in Political Science)--John Cabot University, Fall 2020.
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2020
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Women clothing workers
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Aleman, Daniela. "Bangladesh’s Most Vulnerable: Women Garment Workers". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2020.
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