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 ...
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 ...
Reuters

Athletes’ charities; American lawyers and Bangladesh’s sweatshops; the fate of workplace screwups

It was impressive, and the foundation’s latest publicly available tax return, opens new tab (for 2010) supports that first impression. A relatively modest charity with about $3.4 million in assets, ...
JSTOR Daily

do Bangladeshi factory workers need saving? Sisterhood in the post-sweatshop era

This article revisits the figure of the 'third world sweatshop worker', long iconic of the excesses of the global expansion of flexible accumulation in late twentieth-century capitalism. I am ...
Reuters

The cost of no sweatshops: S. Africa struggles not to be Bangladesh

NEWCASTLE, South Africa (Reuters) - It's not luxurious, but Goldfinch Garments, the Chinese-owned South African factory where Sindisizwe Zwane works nine hours a day, is far from a sweatshop: the ...