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Voices
PETER S.
GOODMAN
HUFFINGTON
05.19.13
The Shame of Bangladesh
WE ALREADY KNOW that our
banks remain too big to fail, threatening regular people with crisis.
Now, a parallel reality is emerging
in the garment trade: Most of our
clothing is produced by global enterprises so vast and complex that
they are simply too big to supervise.
The inability of these multinational brands to monitor factories
that produce their goods in poor
countries combined with their
power to extract cut-rate prices
reinforces an uncomfortable yet
unavoidable truth: People will
suffer and die making our clothes.
No matter how well-intentioned
Bangladeshi
volunteers
and rescue
workers at
the scene of
the factory
collapse on
April 25.