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 ...

As I discuss in my forthcoming book, Sweatshops: Improving Lives and Economic Growth, while 77 percent of Bangladeshis live on less than $2 a day – the international poverty standard – and 43 ...

Bangladesh is one of the most corrupt countries in the world, and its public sector is no exception.In an interview published today, the architect Mubasshar Hussain said Dhaka is the only capital ...

Rutgers will require the 19 companies in Bangladesh that are licensed to produce items with the university's logos to sign an agreement to improve worker safety.

By Jon Herskovitz NEWCASTLE, South Africa, May 16 (Reuters) – It’s not luxurious, but Goldfinch Garments, the Chinese-owned South African factory where Sindisizwe Zwane works nine hours a day ...

Our View: Bangladesh illustrates real cost of sweatshops Consumers should demand decent working conditions, even if it means paying a little more. Posted May 7, 2013 ...

More than a thousand workers were killed in Bangladesh when a building used as a garment factory collapsed. It’s alleged that a factory in China making products for Apple has nets installed to ...

Bangladesh’s tanneries make the sweatshops look good Processing animal skins in Dhaka poisons workers, pollutes Dhaka’s river yet avoids the international spotlight.

In sweatshops, there are very, very few instances of slave labor. Sometimes people who are uncomfortable with products made under these working conditions advocate for ethically produced products.