Struggle and Resilience of Fashion Workers

Myanmar Musings

The garment manufacturing sector in Myanmar has strengthened with the political reforms of the last decade, offering jobs to millions of Myanmar workers. However, it has suffered huge contractions in the wake of the 1 February military coup, with associated indiscriminate murder of protesting workers and factory arson. In this talk given to the Myanmar Update 2021 conference, Sara Tödt of RMIT University talks about young garment workers and their experiences in an extremely tumultuous year.