Influential critics still argue that ‘class analysis’ is no longer relevant to the understandings required in ‘reflexive modernity’, while others argue for ‘new’, improved, approaches to the linked topics of class and employment. This article identifies and examines three related critical themes: co...
Fiona Carmichael, Robbie Woods
In spite of progress made since the 1950s and 1960s, black, Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi workers remain disadvantaged relative to whites in terms of their labour market opportunities. In general, they experience higher rates of unemployment and tend to be under-represented in higher paid, non-m...
Corine H. GeurtsvanKessel, Zhahirul Islam, Quazi Deen Mohammad, Bart C. Jacobs et al.
Robert Hickey, Sarosh Kuruvilla, Tashlin Lakhani
Abstract The precipitous decline in union density and influence around the world has spawned a growing body of scholarship on union renewal. While this literature evidences lively debates regarding the efficacy of different renewal strategies, many argue that the path to renewal is paved through inc...
Md. Abdur Rafi, Mohammed A. Mamun, Kamrul Hsan, Moazzem Hossain et al.
Background: Recent trends suggest that university graduates seeking jobs are more susceptible to common mental disorders, such as depression, anxiety, or stress. But, the mental health issues among unemployed graduates has not been explored in Bangladesh yet. Aims: This study aimed to assess for the...
Angela Dale
This paper examines the relationship between family formation, qualifications and employment for women from white and minority ethnic groups using a life-course approach. Cross-sectional data from the British Quarterly Labour Force Survey for 1992-2003 were used to estimate the relationships. There ...
Sabrina Zajak
ABSTRACT This contribution discusses trajectories of labour power in the making. Taking a practice theory perspective on power, and focusing on the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, the author asks how Bangladeshi trade unions are attempting to use changes in the industrial landscape...
Chowdhury Hossan, Md. Atiqur Rahman Sarker, Rumana Afroze
The RMG sector of Bangladesh has experienced disputes and violent protest by the workers in recent times. Thisstudy explores the reasons for recent unrest in the garment sector. Since managers are mainly responsible forapplying human resource practices, this paper has given particular attention to t...
Mou Rani Sarker
Crisis impacts are never gender-neutral, and COVID-19 is no exception. The pandemic has further exacerbated the gender and socioeconomic inequalities, therefore, crucial to undertake a gender impact analysis of COVID-19. This perspective paper highlights women's vulnerability in the labor market and...
Diana Suhardiman, Jonathan Rigg, Marcel Bandur, Melissa Marschke et al.
Positioning migrants as quintessential globalisation subjects, this paper reveals how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the ambivalent positioning of migration as a pathway for human development. Drawing on interviews with international and domestic labour migrants from Bangladesh, India, Laos and M...
Amrit Dhadda, Giles Greene
Evidence has demonstrated that immigrants have a mental health advantage over the indigenous population of developed countries. However, much of the evidence-base demonstrating this mental health advantage is susceptible to confounding and inadequate adjustment across immigrant and non-immigrant gro...
Katie Trainor, John Mallett, Teresa Rushe
Inconsistencies surrounding the prevalence levels of depression in later life suggest that the measurement of depression in older people may be problematic. The current study aimed to map responses to a depressive symptom scale, the Mental Health Index-5 (MHI-5) which is part of the Short form 36 (S...
Abdul Khaleque, M A Rahman
The present study is an attempt to measure overall job satisfaction of industrial workers, to identify some determinants of job satisfaction, and to evaluate the perceived importance of job facets to their overall job satisfaction. The study was conducted on 1560 workers selected randomly from four ...
Md Mohsin Reza, Thirunaukarasu Subramaniam, M. Rezaul Islam
Jane A. Pryer
SUMMARY This article presents preliminary findings from a study of urban slum households in Khulna, Bangladesh. Chronic incapacitating ill?health among principal household earners, almost all males, was found to have serious effects on households’ economic viability. Affected households with assets ...