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🗓️ 26 April 2023
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On the ten year anniversary of a horrible manufacturing disaster- a look at what has changed, what hasn’t, and the massive secret industry behind it all.
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0:00.0 | Precisely 10 years ago, this month, in April 2013, a massive, multi-floor garment factory |
0:11.5 | collapsed. |
0:13.5 | It was pure chaos. |
0:16.9 | During morning rush hour, it simply collapsed. |
0:20.7 | This was in an industrial suburb of Dhaka Bangladesh, and at least 1,134 people were |
0:28.1 | killed, and they were mostly young women. |
0:31.3 | And in the rubble of that multi-floor garment factory, among the bodies of hundreds of |
0:36.1 | workers, were labels for some very familiar companies. |
0:41.0 | Zara, Walmart, Beneton, Mango. |
0:45.4 | All of them had a peril that was produced in this power of factories, which was called |
0:52.1 | Rana Plaza. |
0:53.7 | And it's the worst industrial accident on record. |
0:58.2 | This is former Brown University Provost Rick Locke speaking in 2014. |
1:02.8 | And what was particularly striking about the Rana Plaza factory collapse was that it was |
1:09.9 | completely avoidable. |
1:12.8 | On the ground, everybody knew, like you could just see from looking at the building that |
1:17.6 | Rana Plaza was dangerous. |
1:19.6 | In fact, cracks in the buildings, foundations, and in the walls were reported the day before. |
1:26.6 | That very day, 10 years ago, the workers didn't want to go into the building. |
1:33.6 | We didn't want to go up in the factory, she says, but management forced us to go and said |
1:37.9 | there was no problem with the building. |
1:39.9 | These workers felt that they didn't have a choice, because they felt that if they didn't |
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