The Norman Transcript

Bangladesh’s sweatshops — a boycott is not the answer

One year ago this week, the eight-story Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka, killing 1,129 people. The building’s top floors had been added illegally, and their ...
The Nation

Sweatshops Won’t Help the World’s Poor, but Unions Could

Influential liberals said low-paid manufacturing jobs would help the Global South. They were wrong then—and they’re especially wrong now. A garment worker works at a factory during a countrywide ...
Yahoo

As a child, she stitched clothes in a sweatshop. Now she sees modern slavery everywhere

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Nasreen Sheikh walks down a busy street, she doesn’t see the faces of the people walking by – she sees the clothes they wear ...
The Hill

Is anti-‘sweatshop’ activism making Bangladeshis poorer?

One of the worst industrial disasters in the modern era took place in Bangladesh when the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed on April 24, 2013, killing more than 1,100 people and injuring some 2,500 ...
Los Angeles Times

In Theory: What’s our responsibility toward sweatshops?

Indeed, the inhumane and deadly conditions in sweatshops in Bangladesh and other countries bear this out. And between the sleek retail shops that sell clothes and other products and the death traps ...