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Feb 3, 2024 · After the collapse of a factory in Bangladesh that made Joe Fresh clothing killed 1,134 workers a decade ago, its Canadian parent company promised safe factories and fair wages.
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Made in Bangladesh: 10 years later. In the decade since...
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Feb 2, 2024 · In the decade since 1,134 people were killed and thousands injured in Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza garment factory collapse, promises to improve safety ring hollow.
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Oct 3, 2014 · A lot of our clothes bear the label ‘Made in Bangladesh’. But before the deadly collapse of a garment factory there last April, most of us never thought about the people who make them. After...
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Made in Bangladesh: 10 years later. In the decade since Bangladesh’s deadly Rana Plaza garment factory collapse, promises to improve wages and factory safety have backslid - including by some...
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Rana Plaza was not the first garment industry accident in Bangladesh. While the government had stringent building codes “on the books,” they were rarely enforced. Most workers lacked the information and power to demand safe working conditions. Yet the fact that the Rana Plaza collapse was not only a humanitarian crisis, but a public relations crisi...
The onus and expense of making these improvements, however, were largely to be borne by the suppliers – a substantial financial burden for many factories, especially considering the low cost and slim profit margins of the clothes they were producing. Under the Alliance and the Accord, thousands of factories were inspected for building and fire safe...
To understand why so much apparel manufacturing takes place in substandard conditions, we need to understand the underlying economic forces: extensive outsourcing to countries with low wages in the quest to meet demand for more – and cheaper – clothing to sell to customers in the West. In the 1960s, the average American family spent 10% of its inco...
A common way that foreign companies source products from low-cost countries like Bangladesh is through intermediaries or agents. For example, when a brand places a large order with an authorized factory, the factory in turn may subcontract part of the production to smaller factories, often without informing the brand. This highly competitive enviro...
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Oct 1, 2014 · Mark Kelley on shooting 'Made in Bangladesh' Host Mark Kelley travelled to Bangladesh to track down workers who said they were still forced to make clothes for Canada in dangerous...
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Nov 21, 2022 · Made in Bangladesh Week 2022 discussed ways to further raise the nation's apparel exports, including a focus on sustainability and a move upscale.
