Unmaking the Global Sweatshop: Health and Safety of the World's Garment Workers

(Part of the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series)

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Anthropologists and ethnographers examine the global garment industry's impact on workers' well-being

The 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more. This disaster exposed the brutal labor conditions of the global garment industry and revealed its failures as a competitive and self-regulating industry. Over the past thirty years, corporations...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812249399

ISBN13:9780812249392

Release Date:August 2017

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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Unmaking the Global Sweatshop: Health and Safety of the World's Garment Workers

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