Professor Lamia Karim received a small grant of $1000 from Asian Studies to conduct research on labor practices in the global ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh in 2016.

The support from Asian Studies helped Karim to collect data on trade union activities in Bangladesh and to locate it within the broader context of labor rights and unions activities comparatively in the Asian context.

Karim is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Becoming Labor: Female Workers in the Readymade Garment Industry in Bangladesh.” During 2016-17, Professor Karim was a Fellow at the research center Perspectives on Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.