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The House of Cards - the Savar building collapse
http://libcom.org/news/house-cards-savar-building-collapse-26042013

The reasons for this slaughter are depressingly predictable; in the cost equation between periodic loss of workers’ lives and effective workplace health & safety measures the cheaper option always wins out. For the capitalists involved – the factory bosses and the international buyers for the Western clothing brands - this is entirely rational. All involved know that workplace deaths from factory fires and building collapses are inevitable under present conditions in Bangladesh - and that these conditions contribute greatly to the low costs of wages, price and profits. The country is the world’s cheapest supplier of clothing. The details of the disaster show the operation of this logic at work...

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Death-trapped in a burning cage - the Ashulia inferno
http://libcom.org/news/death-trapped-burning-cage-ashulia-inferno-27112012

Sur l’incendie à l’usine de textile à #Dacca le 24 novembre 2012

Another fire in a Bangladeshi garment factory, over 120 lives lost and more than a hundred injured - the only difference this time from the many other factory fires in the past 30 years is the scale of the deaths and human suffering. It is this that makes it ’worthy’ of comment, for a brief moment, in the international media. But fire is an occupational hazard for both bosses and workers in this industry. For employers - and their foreign buyers whose brand names are on the labels - it is merely part of a cost and profitability equation and an element of Corporate Image management. This particular death-trap factory was operated by Tazreen Fashion Ltd in the Dhaka industrial suburb of Ashulia and supplied, among other major brands, C & A in the UK and Walmart in the US.

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