Bangladesh's Leather Industry Local Production Networks in the Globa
This study provides an overview of how the Bangladeshi leather value chain is organised and governed. It analyses how the leather processing and leather goods/footwear subsectors are integrated into the global market and to what extent informal arran
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Joseph Strasser
Bangladesh’s Leather Industry Local Production Networks in the Global Economy
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Joseph Strasser
Bangladesh’s Leather Industry Local Production Networks in the Global Economy
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Joseph Strasser Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin Germany
ISSN 2194-315X Springer Geography ISBN 978-3-319-22547-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22548-7
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To Shumon Deceased on February 2, 2014
Acknowledgments
When I started the endeavour of a research project on Bangladesh’s leather industry, I was unaware of the challenges posed by collecting information in the tanning estate. The language barrier, the pitfalls of intercultural communication, or the complexity of technical processes made the research process sometimes a daunting task. “Hazaribagh is not easy to fathom”, I was told. Securing a livelihood there is even less so, as I learned in the course of my fieldwork. There are no words to describe my gratitude for all those people who engaged in either brief conversations or long-winded interviews, providing me with valuable insights into the leather sector
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