The Lethal Price of Sweatshop Development
Ten years ago, the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Bangladesh claimed the lives of 1,134 garment workers. In the years since, little has been done to make working conditions safer or address the underlying exploitation that enabled the disaster’s devastating human toll.
CAMBRIDGE – It has been ten years since an eight-story commercial building housing several textile factories on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed on April 24, 2013. The collapse of Rana Plaza claimed the lives of 1,134 people and severely injured 2,000 more, most of them women.