Abstract
This paper discusses the transfer of the Japanese ready-made garment corporation to Bangladesh after the global financial crisis following the theory of the New International Division of Labor. The main topics are 1) to study the factors as to why the Japanese ready-made garment corporations chose Bangladesh as a secondary transfer location from China, 2) to discuss the characteristics of the Bangladesh factory and analyze the organization, the production, and the labor process within the factory through the gender perspective. Some of the paper's findings are as follows: Bangladesh factories have characteristics of gener segregation and gender asymmetry. Men occupy every production officer position, for example, production managers, floor managers etc. In comparison, all women occupy a lower position within the factory and the majority are found to be sewing operators or helpers. A production officer has the authority to organize the garment line’s structure, allocate a person'sposition on the operation line, and determine the garment worker's salary. Thus, women have no authority within the factory. By analyzing the sixty-six different steps in the production of a pair of cheap shorts and the female factory worker's credentials, it was difficult to find the correlation between the female worker's working experiences, their sewing skills, and their monthly income. The Bangladesh garment industry is in strong competition with periphery Asian countries, in order to continue to stay in production and thrive, the Bangladesh factories must train female workers as production officers and start to re-build the corporation's organization from gender sensitive perspectives.
