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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DHAKA (WNN)--After violent protests last year the Bangladeshi government nearly doubled the standard minimum wage for garment workers. The minimum wage is now $43 a month but even with this increase ...

Alex Witt talks with Toronto Star editor Lynn McAuley about the Star’s reporter Raveena Aulakh who went undercover in a Bangladesh sweatshop for four days. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

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BANGLADESHI Marxist writer Farhad Mazhar was rescued from kidnappers in the early hours of yesterday — soon after further deaths among the sweatshop workers he campaigns for. The veteran labour rights ...