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"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.
But that cheap statement piece comes at a price. The fashion industry is the
second most polluting industry in the world, after the oil and gas sector. It’s
also famously unfair to its workers, the majority of whom are women. Although
there has been a lot of talk about female empowerment, the reality is that most
women who toil on the factory floor remain in poverty for most of their lives.
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.
Most of the people who went to work that day were young women, almost all were
supporting families with their wages and all were at the bottom of the global
production chain.
This week on
Don’t Call Me Resilient, we look back at the Rana Plaza disaster
to explore how much — or how little — has changed for garment worker conditions
since.
The industry has a “murderous disregard for human life.” That’s how this
episode’s guest, Minh-Ha Pham, puts it. She is an associate professor in media
studies at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the author of
Why We Can’t Have
Nice Things.
Also joining us is Dina Siddiqi, a feminist anthropologist and an expert on
labour in Bangladeshi garment factories. She is an associate professor at New
York University."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
