IMPROVING THE LIVING CONDITIONS OF THE GARMENT WORKERS. PARTICIPATORY PLANNING BASED APPROACH A CASE STUDY OF: ‘PALLABI MOLLA BOSTI', MIRPUR, DHAKA, BANGLADESH

Although these cases usually have little or nothing to do with the national authorities, the government has been seeking, in the face of gathering unrest, to strengthen farmers’ land rights in order to prevent such seizures. Details of a proposed new rural reform package that were divulged in October 2008 suggested that the rights of farmers would be strengthened by enabling them to trade in their thirty-year land-use contracts, a move which ought to have the effect of bolstering their security of tenure. [677] Similarly, in an attempt to improve labour conditions, the government introduced a new labour law in 2008 which enhanced the role of labour unions and made it harder for employers to fire workers or rely on casual labour; it was widely expected that the new laws would significantly improve workers’ wages and conditions. Meanwhile the government has predictably resisted the formation of independent labour associations. The Maoist period involved the politicization of more or less the whole of society ...»