Last Nightshift in Savar: The Story of the Spectrum Sweater Factory Collapse by Doug Miller

Last Nightshift in Savar: The Story of the Spectrum Sweater Factory Collapse by Doug Miller

In April 2005 a factory making sweaters for the European market collapsed like a pack of cards during the nightshift in Savar near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The circumstances of this disaster, which caused the deaths of 64 clothing workers and injured a further 84, proved to be a final straw for trade unionists and NGO activists who had long been concerned about the state of factory safety and the inadequacies of social protection in the Ready Made Garment industry in the South East Asian country. Last Nightshift in Savar presents a detailed account of the national and international campaign efforts to bring the owner and his multinational buyers to book. It is also an account of the emergence of two quite different but replicable buyer approaches to the provision of relief for workers in such calamitous circumstances, which hopefully sheds light on some of the contradictions of corporate social responsibility in the globalised economy in which we live today. Finally, it is the story of the efforts of the international trade union, and NGO movement and of two men, in particular, to drive home change in compensation for industrial injury and fatality in the less developed world.

Doug Miller is the Inditex/ITGLWF Professor of Worker Rights in Fashion, in the School of Design at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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ISBN 13	9780857160393
ISBN 10	0857160397
Title	Last Nightshift in Savar: The Story of the Spectrum Sweater Factory Collapse
Author	Doug Miller
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	McNidder & Grace
Year published	2012-07-01
Number of pages	264
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