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The labor of fashion, transnational organizing, and the global COVID-19 pandemic
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Tanjeem, Nafisa |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | This chapter situates the COVID-19 experience of Bangladeshi garment workers producing clothes for global fashion brands against the backdrop of historical transnational solidarity building initiatives. It argues that transnational labor organizing has historically taken a “spotlight” approach (Kabeer et al. 2019) – strategically or inadvertently – targeting one actor at a time and ignoring the broader political economy of the supply chain capitalism. This spotlight approach failed to address how global brands, governments, and local suppliers – all played their unique roles in exploiting racialized and feminized labor of garment workers. The global COVID-19 pandemic revealed one additional example of the limited reach of this spotlight approach. To address pandemic-induced job losses and livelihood threats, transnational labor rights advocates extensively targeted global brands (and the global brands rightfully deserved these backlashes and critiques), ignoring how the Bangladesh government or the Bangladeshi garment factory owners played their part in worsening living and working conditions of garment workers. Hence, we see the continuation of a historical gap between priorities of “global” and “local” forms of labor organizing and a problematic tendency of coopting the narrative of survival of Bangladeshi garment workers by various local as well as global actors. Book Name: The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9780429264405-27&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 268 |
| Page Count | 10 |
| Starting Page | 259 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429264405-27 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2021-08-10 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Routledge Companion To Fashion Studies Historical Garment Workers Labor Organizing Livelihood Building Survival Transnational |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
