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• Fashioning Workers’ Rights For Women

  
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  The runways of New York and the factories of Bangladesh could not seem further apart. Yet they both drive a global, 1.5 trillion dollar industry: the fashion industry. And in both cases, the work is performed overwhelmingly by young women and girls–fashion models, on the one hand, and garment workers on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Think Conditions in Chinese Factories are Improving? Think Again!

  
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  Working conditions in overseas factories are a subject of much interest in the news lately, thanks to a series of devastating industrial accidents in regions like India and the memory of worker suicides at Foxconn’s Chinese facility in 2010. Conscientious Western consumers want to avoid buying products made in ...
  2 weeks ago

• berence abbott city photographs, the modern day grapes of wrath

  
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  Oyster Houses Apr. 1, 1937. By Berence Abbott. Even has her autograph at the bottom. Harlem Street II , June 14, 1938. by Berence Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991). Abbott got what we would call her big break when Man Rayhired her as a darkroom assistant at his portrait studio in Montparnasse. She ...
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• While the Train Runs

  
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  The award-winning short film about the rail tracks slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh. “Cheap clothes? They do not exist!” This was the comment that appeared on my Facebook feed regarding the heartbreaking news of the nearly 400 people who died in the recent Bangladesh garment factory collapse . It’s true and felt ...
  3 weeks ago

• Shop for Change on May Day

  
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  May Day is especially poignant this year, falling only a week after 386 people tragically died and 2,500 were injured in a garment factory collapse in Bangladesh. Thousands of workers paraded through Central Dhaka earlier today, demanding both safety at work and the death penalty for Mohammed Sohel Rana, the man who ...
  3 weeks ago

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