Will the world fiddle while Bangladesh burns?
The People's Republic of Bangladesh in Southeast Asia is the second-largest exporter of ready-made garments in the world. The ready-made garment sector employs 4.4 million workers, and 65 percent of them are women. 84 percent of the country's exports are from this one sector.
The garment workers get a pay raise every five years, and the last five have not been particularly kind - with the impact of the pandemic, increased food and food and fuel prices thanks to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and soaring inflation: 9.5% overall and over 12.5% on food alone.
In late October, the workers decided…
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