Oh, Men, with Sisters dear
Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives
It is not linen you're wearing out,
But human creatures' lives
Stitch - stitch - stitch,
In poverty, hunger and dirt,
Sewing at once, with a double thread,
A Shroud as well as a Shirt.
-from "The Song of the Shirt" by Thomas Hood (1843) In April 2013 Rana Plaza, an unremarkable eight-story commercial block in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, collapsed,...