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Anthropologists and ethnographers examine the global garment industry''s impact on workers'' well-being
The 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more. This disaster exposed the brutal labor conditions of the global garment industry and revealed its failures as a competitive and self-regulating industry. Over the past thirty years, corporations have widely adopted labor codes on health and safety, yet too often in their working lives, garment workers across the globe encounter death, work-related injuries, and unhealthy factory environments. Disasters such as Rana Plaza notwithstanding, garment workers routinely work under conditions that not only escape public notice but also undermine workers'' long-term physical health, mental well-being, and the very sustainability of their employment.
Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists an

Unmaking the Global Sweatshop

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      Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: 10/8/2024
      ISBN13: 9781512826937, 978-1512826937
      ISBN10: 1512826936
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Anthropologists and ethnographers examine the global garment industry''s impact on workers'' well-being
      The 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more. This disaster exposed the brutal labor conditions of the global garment industry and revealed its failures as a competitive and self-regulating industry. Over the past thirty years, corporations have widely adopted labor codes on health and safety, yet too often in their working lives, garment workers across the globe encounter death, work-related injuries, and unhealthy factory environments. Disasters such as Rana Plaza notwithstanding, garment workers routinely work under conditions that not only escape public notice but also undermine workers'' long-term physical health, mental well-being, and the very sustainability of their employment.
      Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists an

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