by Shane English | Jan 10, 2016
DHAKA, Bangladesh — The thrum of needles filled the expansive factory floor as machines embroidered small hearts on thousands of pieces of fabric. Piles of tiny distressed jeans for children covered a table at Alif Embroidery Village, a factory of 1,800 workers on the...
by Shane English | Sep 16, 2015 |
Beneath a gray sky, rainwater had collected in a hole in the ground where Rana Plaza once stood, creating a small, murky pond. Rubble and pieces of steel bars surrounded the edge of the water. It was hard to believe that this small lot, steps away from a busy main...
by Shane English | Sep 16, 2015 |
Shahjahan Selim was a supervisor at a garment factory in Rana Plaza in Dhaka, Bangladesh. On April 24, 2013, he remembers a huge crash when the ceiling collapsed. Dead colleagues sprawled next to him. Selim got up uninjured, then heard people calling for help. For two...
by Shane English | Sep 16, 2015 |
Labor standards are improving in this impoverished country, but workers must have a voice if these changes are to be sustainable. Dhaka—In the early morning, crowds of women in bright salwar kameez move like a colorful wave through the streets of Dhaka. They are...
by Shane English | Oct 25, 2015 |
At a garment factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, young men screen print the words “Holly Whyte” onto white tank tops laid on a long table. They push screen printing frames over each shirt, one by one, rhythmically thwacking the wood against the table. Slogans on some...
