Dr Hameeda Hossain is the author of Company Weavers of Bengal: Textile Production for the East India Company 1750-1813 and Working Conditions of the Company Weavers in Dhaka Arangs. She has written extensively on human rights and women’s issues in Bangladesh, particularly on workers in garment export factories, in handicraft production and migrant workers. She is a member of Ain o Salish Kendra, a human rights resource centre and currently vice chair of Research Initiatives Bangladesh (RIB).