The Cost of Saving Lives in Bangladesh - Ben W. Heineman Jr. - The Atlantic - 13 views
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if real reform is to occur on the ground, hard, complex questions must be asked and answered
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Mr. Mohan on 14 May 13what are these questions in your mind?
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consumers across the globe looking for cheap prices
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global garment retailers who want the incur the lowest cost--and offer the lowest price--to compete in developed markets but who do not want to be complicit in publicized worker tragedies in developing markets
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garment factory owners are willing to allow workers to organize in unions or associations in order to have a voice in health and safety conditions
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question then becomes whether international buyers are willing to go beyond imposition of standards and supplier cut offs and to pay, in some form, for the undetermined costs
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Can a robust consumer movement arise among those shopping for discount clothing in response to the Bangladesh building collapse?
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drawn an analogy between the collapse of the Rana Plaza in the Bangladesh Capital of Dhaka and the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York which claimed 146 lives
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Rana Plaza catastrophe represents a more complicated set of fractured global relationships, responsibilities and financial capabilities.