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Raising Labour Standards in Bangladesh’s Global Garment Industry: What Role for Compensation Rights?

Workers’ right to compensation after garment factory disastersInternational Labour Organization (ILO). (2015). Bangladesh: Rana Plaza Compensation Scheme: Technical Report on the Scheme Design and Operationalization, and Lessons Learnt and Other Relevant Questions. Geneva: International Labour Office, Public Finance, Actuarial and Statistics Services Branch (SOC/PFACTS), Social Protection Department.

Miller, Doug. Miller, Doug. 2012. Last Nighshift in Savar: The Story of the Spectrum Sweater Factory Collapse. Alnwick: McNidder & Grace.

Prentice, Rebecca (2018) Workers’ right to compensation after garment factory disasters: making rights a reality. Technical Report. University of Sussex, Brighton.

Sumon, M.H., N. Shifa, and S. Gulrukh. (2017). Discourses of compensation and the normalization of negligence: the experience of the Tazreen Factory fire. In G. De Neve and R. Prentice (Eds), Unmaking the Global Sweatshop: Health and Safety of the World’s Garment Workers (pp.147-72). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.


Image courtesy of Tazreen Claims Administration