Invisible Scars: Female Ready-made Garment Workers Gendered Exploitation
Published: 2021
Author(s) Name: A.V. Raman and L.R.K. Krishnan |
Author(s) Affiliation: Associate Professor, IIM Kashipur and Professor, VIT Business School, Chennai
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Abstract
This paper provides a first-hand
account of the reasons underpinning the exploitation of Ready-Made Garments (RMG)
workers in Bangalore by integrating
their lived experiences at
work and beyond with the supply
chain, dysfunctional labor
laws and lack of trade union mobilization.
These rural Indian
women migrant workers discover
that it is no better than the past
of poverty and caste-oppression.
Their gendered experience is exacerbated
by sexual and verbal
abuse in an industry in which
there is either extreme work pressure
or no work at all, the pandemic has further worsened
their poverty. Their agency is
muzzled and dissent is silenced
and the state, civil society trade
unions and RMG exporters have
singularly and cumulatively
failed the woman RMG worker
in Bangalore.
Keywords: N.A.
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