In April 2013 the Rana Plaza garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, killing more than 1,100 people and injuring nearly 3,000 more. Though the disaster focused the world’s attention on the dangerous working conditions widely prevalent in the fashion industry, it was one of the worst industrial disasters in history and hardly the type of catalyst for change that those making our clothes for a meager wage had hoped for.
Images of bodies being removed from rubble, survivors—many missing limbs—being pulled from the wreckage, and the families of victims devastated by the loss of their loved ones flooded media outlets. The politically connected owner of the factory had illegally added two floors to the top of the building, filling them with manufacturing equipment, to rent more space to Western brands and ignored reports the previous day of cracks in the structure, forcing workers to return to their posts.
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