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Transforming the Garment Industry in Bangladesh: Sharing Responsibility

In: Sustainable Fashion

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  • Dorothée Baumann-Pauly

    (NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights)

  • Sarah Labowitz

    (NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights)

  • Nate Stein

    (NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights)

Abstract

This chapter introduces the concept of Shared Responsibility as a paradigmatically new approach to the immense systemic challenges and ethical shortcomings of large parts of the garment industry in Bangladesh. The chapter starts with an in-depth problem analysis of the situation in Bangladesh after the collapse of Rana Plaza. Industry and Multi-stakeholder Initiatives such as the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety or the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety are being critically assessed and their shortcomings are being identified. Building on this critique the authors suggest an approach of transformative change including the assessment of total cost of remediation as well as collaboration with a greater pool of stakeholders and local actors. The authors stress the crucial role of the Bangladesh government and illustrate their approach based on existing applications of Shared Responsibility. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the transferability of the new approach to other industrial contexts with similar human rights deficiencies as in the textile sector.

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  • Dorothée Baumann-Pauly & Sarah Labowitz & Nate Stein, 2018. "Transforming the Garment Industry in Bangladesh: Sharing Responsibility," Management for Professionals, in: Sarah Margaretha Jastram & Anna-Maria Schneider (ed.), Sustainable Fashion, pages 41-50, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-319-74367-7_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74367-7_4
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    1. Rejaul Hasan & Marguerite Moore & Robert Handfield, 2020. "Addressing Social Issues in Commodity Markets: Using Cost Modeling as an Enabler of Public Policy in the Bangladeshi Apparel Industry," Journal of Supply Chain Management, Institute for Supply Management, vol. 56(4), pages 25-44, October.

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