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• Sweatshops the “Best Available Alternative”? But Who Decides What Alternatives are Available?

  
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  Of all the self-styled libertarian commentaries attempting to put the Bangladesh garment factory tragedy in “perspective,” Benjamin Powell’s is probably the worst (“ Sweatshops In Bangladesh Improve The Lives Of Their Workers, And Boost Growth ,” Forbes , May 2). In Bangladesh, Powell writes, “some 4,500 ...
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• Factory Floor Servitude

  
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  As a kid, I was all too familiar with factory settings--my dad worked in one.  Dad is an incredibly persistent hard worker who went to the factory every day--tuna sandwich in tow--worked hard and was the voice of reason in advancing the business--and worked his way up to manage the place.  My dad is a modern-day ...
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• 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

• After the Bangladesh Tragedy: Six Ethical, Eco and Fair Clothing Manufacturers

  
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  Here are a few suggestions of more eco, fair, ethical, and local companies from which to purchase clothing. The post After the Bangladesh Tragedy: Six Ethical, Eco and Fair Clothing Manufacturers appeared first on Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit .
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• The cost of our clothes

  
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  The cost of our clothes by karol When I was growing up in the 60s, my mother used to make most of our clothes.  By the time I was in my late teens, in the 60s, it became easier to buy relatively cheap, off the peg clothes in shops.  Many people now know nothing else.  These days. most of those clothes are made ...
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• Oh, Look! Furniture that Rots!

  
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  Send me a catalog I didn’t ask for, and I’ll mock you for your rotting furniture: More importantly than that, the supplier of this catalogue acknowledges that its rattan furniture is imported from Asia. There is no evidence that this particular producer uses sweatshop labor, because the producer of this ...
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• The World Is Flat

  
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  click to enlarge [IMG: http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/31174/large/990.png?1367869879]
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• 230 dead in collapsed Bangladesh sweatshop

  
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    It should not take the death of 400 innocent lives to fuel change. Unfortunately, it looks to be as though this is the story in Bangladesh, where last week an eight- story building collapsed on sweatshop workers. Inside the building lie sweatshops and factories of who supplied to major retailers like JC Penny (for ...
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• European Sweatshops!!

  
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         That babbling brook of bullshit, the media, has give a lot of coverage to the recent deaths of garment workers slaving away in the sweatshops housed in the  building that collapsed in Bangladesh. Of course there is rightful outcry and anger, though any tears shed by the corporate world, will be of ...
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• A Message To The 1%: Be Careful What You Wish For!

  
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      The 1% have made it their daily mission to fleece the middle class of every cent they can. Middlemen and corporations everywhere are standing between you and your healthcare, your phone, your television, your car, your money, your internet, your power, banking fees, brokerage fees, ATM fees, phone fees, ...
  3 weeks ago

• West, Bangladesh & Forgetting May Day — The US is becoming the first “de-developed” nation

  
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  West, Bangladesh & Forgetting May Day — The US is becoming the first “de-developed” nation Yesterday was the first of May, or as it is known throughout most of the industrialized world, May Day. In most places it is celebrated as International Workers’ Day and most laborers have the day off. Though, if ...
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• There’s too much news out there

  
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  I’ve been distracted from my customary scan of news sources recently. Now that normal service is being resumed, I have noticed how many leadership stories that are reported every day This week I would have liked to have followed-up on at least six stories: The Bangladesh factory tragedy Hundreds of workers ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Horror of Bangladesh Factory Collapse Reveals Impotence of CSR Compliance Inspections

  
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  New Orleans    The death count has now passed 340 workers in the horrific collapse of the 8-story garment factory in Bangladesh.   Buried as well in the latest story in the Times is the understated indictment of another hollow and ineffective outside inspection of these garment plants as part of corporate ...
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• On Bangladesh, and some of the worst factory disasters in history

  
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  Fire at Albion Mill, Blackfriars, London,1791. Painting by T. Rowlandson The history of mass manufacturing is stitched through with accidents and peril. The first factories, which powered the industrial revolution in 18th century Britain, brought death and injury to many workers, including children . M ...
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• Easy Questions, Difficult Answers

  
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  The tragedy in Dhaka has rightly focused attention on the appalling safety record of the sweatshops in which much of the West’s clothing and consumer gadgets are produced. Many have already called for a boycott of the cheap clothing sold (…) Read the rest of this entry »
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• Bangladesh Building Collapse Kills Scores Of Workers, Pressured To Clock In Despite Dangers

  
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  By Emran Hossain and Dave Jamieson of the Huffington Post: The number of dead continues to rise in Bangladesh as rescuers sort through the debris of an eight-story building that collapsed Wednesday morning, claiming at least 123 lives so far in just the latest workplace disaster to hit the country. The victims ...
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• Wednesday Night Links: 8,000 Barrels, 0.000025%, 3,387 Men, $100 Bills, and More

  
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  *  Over a longer time span, say a decade, we would expect about 19 spill incidents with an aggregate spill volume of about 8,000 barrels, enough to fill about half of an Olympic-sized swimming pool.   We would expect about 1.3 of these spills to be “large,” which means that on average we would expect a ...
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• Building Collapse Today Is Another Wake-Up Call for Walmart and Other Major Buyers to Act Immediately to Prevent Future Tragedies

  
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    Activists march in front of Walmart store in Seattle on Wednesday   More than 80 workers died andhundreds were injured when apparel factories collapsed in the Rana Plazabuilding in Dhaka, Bangladesh today. Families continue to search forsurvivors.  This disaster comes just 5 months after the fire at ...
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