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Globalization, gender and poverty: Bangladeshi women workers in export and local markets
✍ Scribed by Naila Kabeer; Simeen Mahmud
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 111 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0954-1748
- DOI
- 10.1002/jid.1065
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Economic liberalization in Bangladesh has led to the emergence of a number of export‐oriented industries, of which the manufacture of ready‐made garments is the most prominent. The industry currently employs around 1.5 million workers, the overwhelming majority of whom are women. This paper explores the poverty implications of this new form of employment through a comparison of the socio‐economic backgrounds, wages and working conditions and contributions to household needs of women working for global markets with those working for domestic markets. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.