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Last Nightshift in Savar: The Story of the Spectrum Sweater Factory Collapse
Author(s): Doug Miller (Author)
- Publisher: McNidder and Grace
- Publication Date: March 19, 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 0857160397
- ISBN-13: 9780857160393
Book Description
In April 2005, a factory making sweaters for the European market collapsed like a pack of cards during the nightshift in Savar near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The circumstances of this disaster, which caused the deaths of 64 clothing workers and injured a further 84, proved to be a final straw for trade unionists and NGO activists who had long been concerned about the state of factory safety and the inadequacies of social protection in the ready-made garment industry in the South Asian country.
Last Nightshift in Savar presents a detailed account of the national and international campaign efforts to bring the owner and his multinational buyers to book. It is also an account of the emergence of two quite different but replicable buyer approaches to the provision of relief for workers in such calamitous circumstances, which hopefully sheds light on some of the contradictions of corporate social responsibility in the globalized economy in which we live today.
Finally, it is the story of the efforts of the international trade union, and NGO movement and of two men, in particular, to drive home change in compensation for industrial injury and fatality in the less developed world.
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About the Author
Doug Miller Emeritus Professor in Worker Rights in Fashion at the University of Northumbria has over 30 years experience in teaching, researching and communicating on the issues surrounding equality, corporate responsibility and industrial relations. He has worked as Research Director, in the textile, clothing and footwear sectors and part of the first international framework agreement in the sector between the Global Union and Inditex S.A. – the Spanish multinational and world’s largest retailer.
