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This Is Why

Rana Plaza Factory Collapse: 10 years on, how much has changed?

This Is Why

Sky News

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On 24 April 2013, a tower block in Bangladesh collapsed killing 1,134 people and leaving thousands more with life-changing injuries. Most of those killed and injured were factory workers, who had been making clothes for some of the world's biggest fashion brands.


On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood speaks to journalist and author of The Anti-Capitalist Book Of Fashion, Tansy Hoskins and Amy Powney, the creative director of sustainable fashion brand Mother of Pearl and star of the documentary Fashion Reimagined, about how the fashion industry has changed in the last decade, and what still needs to be done.

Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
Editor: Paul Stanworth

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Noisy, dusty, making garments, all these bales of fabric. It creates a lot of dust, can make it

1:07.7

quite hard to breathe. Rows and rows of machinists, people packing clothes,

1:12.6

people snipping loose threads off clothes,

1:15.6

lots and lots of people working from dawn to dusk.

1:19.6

Even before it collapsed, the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh

1:23.6

was an unpleasant place to work.

1:25.6

The garment workers, mostly women, had complained about the conditions in the factories,

1:31.3

but were made to continue working, even though managers knew the building was unsafe.

1:37.3

There were basically too many floors, there were too many people packed into that building,

1:42.4

there was too many machinery and too many bales of cloth.

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