After Rana Plaza: Governing Exploitative Workplace Labour Regimes in Bangladeshi Garment Export Factories

IF 2.6 2区 管理学 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
S. Frenkel, S. Rahman, K. M. Rahman
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Abstract

In 2013, the Rana Plaza disaster highlighted the highly exploitative conditions of the global garment supply chain centred on Bangladesh. Global lead firms and other stakeholders responded by reforming the labour governance system comprising public and private regulations. How can the effects of this new multi-level governance system on worker outcomes (wages, working conditions and workers’ rights) be conceptualized and explained? Using an inter-disciplinary framework integrating an industrial relations/sociology perspective and a global production network approach, we show how workplace relations (structural and relational workplace characteristics) mediate the relationship between the labour governance system and worker outcomes. A mixed methods research design that includes a factory management survey and case studies enables us to identify and analyse two predominant types of workplace labour regimes associated with different patterns of worker outcomes (procedural and substantive employment conditions). Referred to as the hardship and sweatshop regimes, respectively, these differ in the extent to which workers are exploited. With the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, we discuss the possibility that modern slavery, the worst form of worker exploitation, is emerging. The paper concludes by briefly considering several research and practical implications of our analysis.
拉纳广场之后:治理孟加拉国服装出口工厂的剥削性工作场所劳工制度
2013年,拉纳广场灾难凸显了以孟加拉国为中心的全球服装供应链的高度剥削条件。全球领先公司和其他利益攸关方通过改革由公共和私人法规组成的劳工治理体系作出回应。如何概念化和解释这种新的多层次治理体系对工人成果(工资、工作条件和工人权利)的影响?使用一个融合了产业关系/社会学视角和全球生产网络方法的跨学科框架,我们展示了工作场所关系(结构和关系型工作场所特征)如何调节劳动治理体系和工人结果之间的关系。包括工厂管理调查和案例研究在内的混合方法研究设计使我们能够确定和分析与不同工人结果模式(程序性和实质性就业条件)相关的两种主要类型的工作场所劳动制度。分别被称为艰苦条件和血汗工厂制度,这些制度在工人受到剥削的程度上有所不同。随着新冠肺炎大流行的出现,我们讨论了现代奴隶制——最严重的剥削工人形式——正在出现的可能性。本文最后简要考虑了我们分析的几个研究和实际意义。
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Journal of Industrial Relations
Journal of Industrial Relations INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR-
CiteScore
4.00
自引率
21.70%
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37
期刊介绍: The Journal of Industrial Relations takes a broad interdisciplinary approach to the subject of the world of work. It welcomes contributions which examine the way individuals, groups, organisations and institutions shape the employment relationship. The Journal takes the view that comprehensive understanding of industrial relations must take into account economic, political and social influences on the power of capital and labour, and the interactions between employers, workers, their collective organisations and the state.
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