Fast Fashion:  Why garment workers lives are still in danger 10 years after Rana Plaza
Channel: The Conversation
Date: 2023-09-06

Original air date: April 13th, 2023

Fast fashion is that ever-changing need to have the latest beautiful thing at a bargain price - that club-ready piece of clothing, that status symbol shoe, or that must-have top you just found at the mall.

Ten years ago this month, much attention turned to the global garment industry when a group of garment factories collapsed at Rana Plaza near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The accident, called a “mass industrial homicide" by unions in Bangladesh, killed 1,124 people and injured at least 2,500 more.

This week Vinita and Dina Siddiqi, associate professor @NewYorkUniversity, feminist anthropologist, and an expert on labour in Bangladeshi garment factories. We look back at the Rana Plaza disaster to explore how much — or how little  — has changed for garment worker conditions since.

Show notes:  https://theconversation.com/fast-fashion-why-garment-workers-lives-are-still-in-danger-10-years-after-rana-plaza-podcast-203122