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What Do Our Shoes Tell Us About the World? - 3 views
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A YouTube playlist, but I'm not sure how others add videos to the one I started.
Portraits of Pain | Taslima Akhter - 1 views
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The look of every individual expresses their horrible memory and scream for their spoilt dreams. Dalia Amena, Mitaly, Asma and all other are the victims of Rana Plaza, a nine-story commercial building that collapsed on 24 April 2013. With more than 1134 workers' deaths and sufferings by the collapse, their lives also have fallen into a cycle of distress.
The life and struggle of Garment workers | Taslima Akhter - 1 views
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"I wanted to be an artist by drawing and making handicraft but my dream is now ruined under the niddle of machine, under the rubble and sometimes by fire"- Lija a garment worker With a dream of living a better life million of workers from villages gather in workers barrack in cities.
poem by Chinese poet about factory life - 1 views
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The Factory Girl From the damp, dirty hallway, From the long lines of the cafeteria, From the rumble of the machines and the unbearable factory noise, The daylight drifts by, the starlight drifts by. Forever crying on the production line, The factory girls endure exhaustion and hardship.
Corporate Irresponsibility? Fashion's Hidden Cost in Bangladesh's Garment Industry - 1 views
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Also video: two companies making different decisions about production in Bangladesh. Overview | Do American companies have a responsibility to ensure the health and safety of the workers who manufacture the clothing they sell? Do American consumers have any responsibility for workers in other countries who make their clothing?
Pay Up! - Clean Clothes Campaign - 0 views
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Links to articles and information: A year since Rana Plaza collapsed
How containerization shaped the modern world - Sir Harold Evans - 0 views
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Sometimes a single unlikely idea can have massive impact across the world. Sir Harold Evans, the author of They Made America, describes how frustration drove Malcom McLean, a small-town truck driver, to invent the shipping container. Containerization was born, and it transformed the modern global economy.
The shirt on your back: the human cost of the Bangladeshi garment industry - 2 views
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How did the clothes you're wearing get to you? Guardian journalists trace the lifecycle of the shirt on your back via the teeming workshops of Dhaka, where labour is cheap, factories are cheaper and just going to work can be fatal
Rana Plaza Collapse: Death of A Thousand Dreams | Taslima Akhter - 1 views
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On that day, early in the morning many garment workers walked into the factories of Rana Plaza, their working place. Within an hour everything was shattered. Nobody knows how many workers were running to save his or her lives at the end moment. Workers' scream echoed on the walls of Rana Plaza.
Teaching Global History - 1 views
Planet Money's T-Shirt Project : NPR - 1 views
NIKE, Inc. - Manufacturing - 1 views