The 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in
Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured
hundreds more. This disaster exposed the brutal labor conditions of
the global garment industry and revealed its failures as a
competitive and self-regulating industry. Over the past thirty
years, corporations have widely adopted labor codes on health and
safety, yet too often in their working lives, garment workers
across the globe encounter death, work-related injuries, and
unhealthy factory environments. Disasters such as Rana Plaza
notwithstanding, garment workers routinely work under conditions
that not only escape public notice but also undermine workers'
long-term physical health, mental well-being, and the very
sustainability of their employment. Unmaking the Global Sweatshop
gathers the work of leading anthropologists and ethnographers
studying the global garment industry to examine the relationship
between the politics of labor and initiatives to protect workers'
health and safety. Contributors analyze both the labor processes
required of garment workers as well as the global dynamics of
outsourcing and subcontracting that produce such demands on
workers' health. The accounts contained in Unmaking the Global
Sweatshop trace the histories of labor standards for garment
workers in the global South; explore recent partnerships between
corporate, state, and civil society actors in pursuit of
accountable corporate governance; analyze a breadth of initiatives
that seek to improve workers' health standards, from ethical trade
projects to human rights movements; and focus on the ways in which
risk, health, and safety might be differently conceptualized and
regulated. Unmaking the Global Sweatshop argues for an expansive
understanding of garment workers' lived experiences that recognizes
the politics of labor, human rights, the privatization and
individualization of health-related responsibilities as well as the
complexity of health and well-being. Contributors: Mark Anner,
Hasan Ashraf, Jennifer Bair, Jeremy Blasi, Geert De Neve, Saydia
Gulrukh, Ingrid Hagen-Keith, Sandya Hewamanne, Caitrin Lynch,
Alessandra Mezzadri, Patrick Neveling, Florence Palpacuer, Rebecca
Prentice, Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Nazneen Shifa, Dina M. Siddiqi,
Mahmudul H. Sumon.
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