Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka - The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries: A book talk by Sanchita Saxena
Lecture | October 30 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Speaker: Sanchita Saxena, Executive Director and Director of the Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, Institute for South Asia Studies
Sponsors: Institute for South Asia Studies, Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, The Asia Foundation,Global Leadership Program at the Goldman School of Public Policy, Center for Labor Research and Education
Sanchita Saxena, (Executive Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies and Director of the Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at the University of California at Berkeley) will discuss her new book, Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries, which has earned rave reviews from leading experts, at the Institute for South Asia Studies on October 30.
Be sure to catch Dr. Saxena’s talk on her book, which Rehman Sobhan (Economist and Chairman, Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh) commented, “Sanchita Saxena is to be commended on a work which contextualizes the emerging tensions within a highly competitive global economy, particularly as they pertain to the workers within the garments industries of three important exporters, Bangladesh, Cambodia and Sri Lanka. Her work, drawing on some valuable primary research, should be of much value to not just researchers and policymakers but also to the workers of these industries.”
Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka is essential reading for students and researchers in policy studies, labor studies, South and Southeast Asian studies, international trade, and political science, as well as those engaged in program design and evaluation of projects focused on labor rights. This study is also critical for non-governmental organizations with a thematic focus on the garments and textiles industry, labor rights, human rights, and international trade policy, as well as for private sector organizations focused on improving labor conditions around the world.
Browse the book using the Cambria Press free preview.
Click to listen to a VOA Interview of Dr. Saxena discussing her book.
Speaker Bio
Sanchita Banerjee Saxena is the executive director of the Institute for South Asia Studies (ISAS) at the University of California at Berkeley and the director of the Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies under the ISAS. Prior to joining ISAS, she was the assistant director of Economic Programs at the Asia Foundation, where she coauthored The Phase-Out of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement: Policy Options and Opportunities for Asia. She has also served as a consultant to the Asia Foundation on various economic projects and was a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. in 2010 and 2014. Dr. Saxena holds a PhD in political science from UCLA. She has given invited lectures at several universities and institutions, including Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, UC Berkeley, the United States International Trade Commission, the Center for Global Development, and the U.S. Bangladesh Advisory Council. Her commentaries have been featured in the New York Times, Economic and Political Weekly, Thompson Reuters, The Daily Star and aired on LinkTV, KQED World, and KPFA.