Why do garment workers in Bangladesh fail to mobilize?

Citizenship and social movements: Perspectives from the global South

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 60-86

  Mahmud, Simeen ^a  

^a Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies   (Bangladesh)

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