Disenchanted garment workers: social and economic crisis of garment workers

Abstract

RMG sector has brought a revolutionary change in the life of rural and poor people, previously these people had no ways other than joining into traditional farming occupation or to work as a housemaid in the households of affluent people. But RMG sector has given them the opportunity to join in industrial sector and extricate the mesh of traditional and oppressive society. Particularly enormous number of woman has joined in RMG sector and achieved freedom over their life. Beforehand these woman had to live behind the enclosure of traditional society. RMG sector has given them voice and ground to step ahead. But working in RMG sectors costs the workers poignant and heart-rending sufferings and tribulations. Some time it costs workers their most precious possession, which is life. This paper tried to implore the sufferings and miseries that the workers have to go through while working in this sectors. I tried to surface the socio-economic conditions of the garment workers in this thesis.