How do public and private labor governance regimes intersect in global supply chains and with what effects? Based on fieldwork in Bangladesh, including interviews with garment industry stakeholders, this article examines the main public and private regulatory reforms instituted in post-Rana Plaza Bangladesh: the Sustainability Compact and the Bangladesh Accord, respectively. Despite the Accord’s substantial achievements in improving workplace safety, particularly relative to the progress achieved under the Compact, findings show that government and industry actors in Bangladesh have resisted the Accord’s efforts to empower workers for fear that improved labor standards would threaten managerial control over one of the global garment industry’s largest and cheapest labor forces. Rather than being an example of complementarity between private and public governance, or an effective substitution of one by the other, post-Rana Plaza Bangladesh represents an undermining of effective private regulation by a state opposed to pro-labor reforms.

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孟加拉后拉那广场上私人和公共管制的政治经济学

公共和私人劳动治理制度如何与全球供应链相交，产生什么影响？基于孟加拉国的实地调查，包括与制衣业利益相关者的访谈，本文考察了在后拉纳广场孟加拉国实施的主要公共和私人监管改革：《可持续发展契约》和《孟加拉国协议》。尽管该协议在改善工作场所安全方面取得了重大成就，尤其是与《契约》所取得的进展相比，但调查结果表明，孟加拉国的政府和行业参与者仍然抵制该协议赋予工人权力的努力，原因是担心劳工标准的提高会威胁对其中一项工作的管理控制全球服装业最大，最便宜的劳动力。