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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, New York City, March 1911. Rana Plaza building fire, Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 2013. The Kheel Center, Cornell University, http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ Demotix trianglefire 541794 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796014541794New Labor ForumAppelbaum and Lichtenstein research-article2014 New Labor Forum 2014, Vol. 23(3) 58 –65 An Accident in History Copyright © 2014, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1095796014541794 1 1 nlf.sagepub.com Rich Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein Keywords international labor, sweatshops, Rana Plaza, supply chains, jobbers The collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory supply chain remains opaque not only to the complex near Dhaka in April 2013—killing government, the public, and the workers but also 1,132 souls and injuring nearly 2,000 more—is to the retailers who pay for the product and set unquestionably the most horrific human tragedy standards for its price, quality, and production in garment industry world history. Whether this schedule. Such was the backdrop to the Tazreen enormous loss of life will be balanced by a new fire. The factory was working flat-out to meet era of social reform remains an open question. the Christmas rush in the West. Walmart had ter- But it seems just possible that Rana Plaza may minated its
New Labor Forum – SAGE
Published: Sep 1, 2014
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