Does employment in garments industry empower or jeopardize women? On the basis of primary and secondary research, this book seeks to provide an answer. It draws our attention to a possibly improving condition in the lives of RMG workers. ‘Though women are facing gross vulnerability emergence of some capabilities is evident,’ (p165) it says and supports this statement with detailed data drawn from meticulously structured research. By doing this, it challenges some pre-conceived notions and makes valuable addition to the growing body of existing literature and scholarly work on the condition of ready-made garment workers in Bangladesh. It also makes concrete recommendations for activism and welfare work in the RMG sector.