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Paradigm Shift or Business as Usual? Workers’ Views on Multi‐stakeholder Initiatives in Bangladesh
Development and Change ( IF 3.458 ) Pub Date : 2020-02-24 , DOI: 10.1111/dech.12574
Naila Kabeer , Lopita Huq , Munshi Sulaiman

The scale of the tragedy at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,000 garment factory workers died when the building collapsed in April 2013, galvanized a range of stakeholders to take action to prevent future disasters and to acknowledge that business as usual was not an option. Prominent in these efforts were the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (hereafter the Accord) and the Alliance for Bangladesh Workers’ Safety (hereafter the Alliance), two multi‐stakeholder agreements that brought global buyers together in a coordinated effort to improve health and safety conditions in the ready‐made garment industry. These agreements represented a move away from the buyer‐driven, compliance‐based model, which hitherto dominated corporate social responsibility initiatives, to a new cooperation‐based approach. The Accord in particular, which included global union federations and their local union partners as signatories and held global firms legally accountable, was described as a ‘paradigm shift’ with the potential to improve industrial democracy in Bangladesh. This article is concerned with the experiences and perceptions of workers in the Bangladesh garment industry regarding these new initiatives. It uses a purposively designed survey to explore the extent to which these initiatives brought about improvements in wages and working conditions in the garment industry, to identify where change was slowest or absent and to ask whether the initiatives did indeed represent a paradigm shift in efforts to enforce the rights of workers.

中文翻译:

范式转变还是一切照旧?工人对孟加拉国多方利益相关者倡议的看法

孟加拉国拉纳广场惨剧的规模——2013 年 4 月大楼倒塌,造成 1,000 多名服装厂工人死亡——激励了一系列利益相关者采取行动预防未来的灾难,并承认一切照旧并非一帆风顺。选项。这些努力中的佼佼者是孟加拉国消防和建筑安全协议(以下简称“协议”)和“孟加拉国工人安全联盟”(以下简称“联盟”),这两项多利益相关方协议将全球买家聚集在一起,共同努力改善健康和成衣行业的安全条件。这些协议代表了从以前主导企业社会责任倡议的买方驱动、基于合规的模式转向新的基于合作的方法。特别是该协议,其中包括全球工会联合会及其当地工会合作伙伴作为签署方,并要求全球公司承担法律责任,被描述为“范式转变”,有可能改善孟加拉国的工业民主。本文关注的是孟加拉国服装业工人对这些新举措的经验和看法。它使用一项有目的的调查来探讨这些举措在多大程度上改善了服装行业的工资和工作条件,确定了哪些方面的变化最慢或没有变化,并询问这些举措是否确实代表了努力的范式转变维护工人的权利。其中包括全球工会联合会及其当地工会合作伙伴作为签署方,并要求全球公司承担法律责任,被描述为具有改善孟加拉国工业民主潜力的“范式转变”。本文关注的是孟加拉国服装业工人对这些新举措的经验和看法。它使用一项有目的的调查来探讨这些举措在多大程度上改善了服装行业的工资和工作条件,确定了哪些方面的变化最慢或没有变化,并询问这些举措是否确实代表了努力的范式转变维护工人的权利。其中包括全球工会联合会及其当地工会合作伙伴作为签署方,并要求全球公司承担法律责任,被描述为具有改善孟加拉国工业民主潜力的“范式转变”。本文关注的是孟加拉国服装业工人对这些新举措的经验和看法。它使用一项有目的的调查来探讨这些举措在多大程度上改善了服装行业的工资和工作条件,确定了哪些方面的变化最慢或没有变化,并询问这些举措是否确实代表了努力的范式转变维护工人的权利。本文关注的是孟加拉国服装业工人对这些新举措的经验和看法。它使用一项有目的的调查来探讨这些举措在多大程度上改善了服装行业的工资和工作条件,确定了哪些方面的变化最慢或没有变化,并询问这些举措是否确实代表了努力的范式转变维护工人的权利。本文关注的是孟加拉国服装业工人对这些新举措的经验和看法。它使用一项有目的的调查来探讨这些举措在多大程度上改善了服装行业的工资和工作条件,确定了哪些方面的变化最慢或没有变化,并询问这些举措是否确实代表了努力的范式转变维护工人的权利。
更新日期:2020-02-24
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