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8 years after the Rana Plaza tragedy, Bangladesh's garment workers are still bottom of the pile

  • Written by Shams Rahman, Professor of Supply Chain Management, RMIT University
8 years after the Rana Plaza tragedy, Bangladesh's garment workers are still bottom of the pileIn this picture taken June 14, 2013, Henna Begum holds a picture of her daughter Akhi Akhter, a garment worker in the Rana Plaza building in Savar when it collapsed. Kevin Frayer/AP

The 2013 Dhaka garment factory collapse, killing more than 1,100 workers and injuring 2,600 more, is the clothing industry’s worst ever industrial incident.

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