Labour Rights from Labour Wrongs? Transnational Compensation and the Spatial Politics of Labour Rights after Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza Garment Factory Collapse

Prentice, Rebecca

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“…However, their work creates a process of alienation when humans work against machines and routine patterns for years (Swastika, 2023). Privatizing, narrowing, and deterritorializing labor rights is a form of violence against nature and women, which is restructuring the world economy based on the principles of neoliberalism (Mies & Shiva, 2014;Prentice, 2021). Several PPS artworks above show that artworks have agency.…”

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Becoming an Active Subject: Women's Art Collective Eco-Artivism for Ecological Sustainability in Indonesia

Ambar Alimatur Rosyidah,

Sahara Ulfa,

Hermin Indah Wahyuni

2024

MJSB

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This study explores the eco-artivism of women's art collectives for ecological sustainability by looking at actor-networks, eco-art as a non-human actor, and women's art collective negotiations. In Indonesia, eco-artivism is used to raise ecological awareness and strengthen socio-environmental protests in the ecological crisis. To explain the relationship of ecological sustainability in the artistic works of women's art collectives, we underline the connection between ecofeminism and Actor-Network Theory (ANT). We used a case study method with the Perempuan Pengkaji Seni (PPS) community, an art collective of female artists, workers, and researchers based in East Java, Indonesia. We find that the eco-artivism of women’s art collectives is an attempt to make women and nature become active subjects. These efforts can be seen in three resulting themes: the PPS network as a women's art collective, eco-art from the scars left by natural disasters to the impact of industrialization, and the negotiation of PPS as a women’s art collective for environmental sustainability.

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Becoming an Active Subject: Women's Art Collective Eco-Artivism for Ecological Sustainability in Indonesia

Ambar Alimatur Rosyidah,

Sahara Ulfa,

Hermin Indah Wahyuni

2024

MJSB

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“…With regards to Rana Plaza, the Accord and the Alliance have proven insufficient, with respect to implementing systems for consistent financial support for workers, for example, such as emergency employment insurance schemes (Prentice, 2018a(Prentice, , 2018b, or by addressing buyer/supply dynamics related to cost-cutting and increasingly shorter production lead-times (Kabeer, 2019). Post-Rana Plaza, Prentice (2018aPrentice ( , 2018b identified compensation schemes in Bangladesh as slow, confusing, and lacking.…”

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Fashion diplomacy: Canada’s shared role in supporting garment worker safety in Bangladesh

Hanlon,

Brydges

2023

CPSR

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In this article, we investigate Canada’s shared role in supporting worker safety and responsible fashion and apparel in Bangladesh. Drawing on two case studies, the Rana Plaza factory collapse and the COVID-19 pandemic, we investigate the Government of Canada’s varied response to the impact of these crises on garment workers. To investigate this, and to advance our understanding of Canada’s own role in supporting garment worker safety and agency in responsible fashion and apparel production, we turn to the concept of ‘fashion diplomacy.’ We argue that if Canada hopes to play a leading role in supporting responsible fashion and apparel practices in an ever-changing landscape, it must develop inclusive policy solutions capable of addressing the diverse and at times divergent interests of state and non-state actors both at home and abroad. In doing so, we identify possible strategies for Canada in addressing the new and emerging Indo-Pacific strategic environment.RésuméDans cet article, nous examinons le rôle partagé du Canada dans le soutien de la sécurité des travailleurs et de la mode et des vêtements au Bangladesh. En nous appuyant sur deux études de cas, l'effondrement de l'usine Rana Plaza et la pandémie de COVID-19, nous examinons la réponse variée du gouvernement du Canada à l'impact de ces crises sur ces travailleurs. Pour enquêter cela et pour avancer notre compréhension du rôle du Canada dans le soutien de la sécurité des travailleurs des s et de l'agence dans la production responsable de mode et de vêtements, nous nous tournons vers le concept de « diplomatie de la mode ». Nous soutenons que si le Canada espère jouer un rôle de premier plan dans le soutien des pratiques responsables en matière de mode et des vêtements dans un paysage en constante évolution, il doit élaborer des solutions politiques inclusives qui sont capables de répondre aux intérêts divers et parfois divergents des acteurs étatiques et non étatiques, tant au niveau du pays or de l’état et à l'étranger. Ce faisant, nous identifions des stratégies possibles pour le Canada face au nouvel environnement stratégique émergent de l'Indopacifique.Keywords: Fashion diplomacy, sustainable fashion, labour rights, cultural diplomacy, Canada, BangladeshMots-clés : Diplomatie de la mode, mode durable, droits du travail, diplomatie culturelle, Canada, Bangladesh

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“…The health and safety of global apparel workers received renewed scholarly attention following the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh in 2013, which killed over 1 100 workers (Prentice, 2021). Even though such catastrophic events are not frequent, the health and well-being of apparel workers across the world are extremely precarious and routinely affected by physical and mental risks (Mezzadri, 2017;Prentice and De Neve, 2017;Saxena, 2020).…”

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The Collective Working Body: Rethinking Apparel Workers' Health and Well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sri Lanka

Wickramasingha

Neve

2022

GLJ

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This article contributes to debates on global apparel workers’ health and well-being through an examination of how Sri Lankan workers were affected and treated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on qualitative interviews in and around the Katunayake Export Processing Zone, the article takes the Sri Lankan apparel industry as a case study. It reconceptualises the “precarious working body” as a “collective body” in order to demonstrate how workers’ health was a matter of collective precariousness. Workers’ health was not only dependent on that of others around them inside densely populated factories, but was also shaped by systemic material and discursive practices that affected workers collectively. These material practices included labour control and incentive structures that prevented workers from seeking medical attention and taking leave when needed, which in turn led to the spread of the virus across factories. The discursive practices comprise the social stigma and devaluation of women apparel workers that facilitated the blaming of workers for spreading the virus and enabled their inhumane treatment during the pandemic response. We argue that conceiving of apparel workers as a “collective body” enables a recognition of the systemic forces that create ill health at work and that expose certain (but not all) working bodies to the risks of infection. KEYWORDS: labour regimes; social stigma; occupational health; apparel industry; COVID-19

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Labour Rights from Labour Wrongs? Transnational Compensation and the Spatial Politics of Labour Rights after Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza Garment Factory Collapse

Abstract: Article (Accepted Version) http://sro.sussex.ac.uk Prentice, Rebecca (2021) Labour rights from labour wrongs? transnational compensation and the spatial politics of labour rights after Bangladesh's Rana Plaza garment factory collapse. Antipode. pp. 1-20.

Cited by 11 publications

References 48 publications

Becoming an Active Subject: Women's Art Collective Eco-Artivism for Ecological Sustainability in Indonesia

Becoming an Active Subject: Women's Art Collective Eco-Artivism for Ecological Sustainability in Indonesia

Fashion diplomacy: Canada’s shared role in supporting garment worker safety in Bangladesh

The Collective Working Body: Rethinking Apparel Workers' Health and Well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sri Lanka

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