One of the worst industrial disasters in the modern era took place in Bangladesh when the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed on April 24, 2013, killing more than 1,100 people and injuring some 2,500 ...

Influential liberals said low-paid manufacturing jobs would help the Global South. They were wrong then—and they’re especially wrong now. A garment worker works at a factory during a countrywide ...

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It's been a rough few months in public relations for Walmart. The retail giant faces charges of bribery and corruption in Mexico, lawsuits from contract warehouse workers in the U.S. alleging wage ...

One year ago this week, the eight-story Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka, killing 1,129 people. The building’s top floors had been added illegally, and their ...

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DHAKA (WNN)--After violent protests last year the Bangladeshi government nearly doubled the standard minimum wage for garment workers. The minimum wage is now $43 a month but even with this increase ...

Alex Witt talks with Toronto Star editor Lynn McAuley about the Star’s reporter Raveena Aulakh who went undercover in a Bangladesh sweatshop for four days. © 2024 ...

It was impressive, and the foundation’s latest publicly available tax return, opens new tab (for 2010) supports that first impression. A relatively modest charity with about $3.4 million in assets, ...

Few people learn what working for a nine-year-old feels like. (Most would consider the idea of working for a nine-year-old like the butt of a good SNL sketch.) But a Toronto Star reporter went to ...

NEWCASTLE, South Africa (Reuters) - It's not luxurious, but Goldfinch Garments, the Chinese-owned South African factory where Sindisizwe Zwane works nine hours a day, is far from a sweatshop: the ...

Anti-Muslim racist Tommy Robinson has been promoting, wearing and selling supposedly patriotic clothes made by Muslims in foreign sweatshops, the Daily Mail can reveal. Just last month, Robinson and ...