Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Made in Bangladesh: Behind the Factory Fire


An insight into Bangladesh's clothing supply chain and working conditions in the country's garment factories.


In November 2012, a fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory in Bangladesh killed at least 112 people. Found among the ashes were the charred remains of garments being manufactured for large US clothing companies.
So why were they being made there, and what do huge multinational corporations do to monitor working conditions in factories like these?
In this Peabody award-winning episode of Al Jazeera's Fault Lines strand, reporter Anjali Kamat went in search of answers.


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