1. The Exploitation of Sweat Shops
... "Lives Held Cheap in Bangladesh Sweatshops" by Barry Bearak (2001), and "One World Ready or Not" by William Greider. The Philippines is a country housing hundreds of sweatshops. Industrialization has displaced the population from rural areas, to cities. The population of the city of Rosario has swelled to 60, ... 2001 a garment factory caught on fire from the fourth floor from boxed Polo T-shirts. The 1250 workers scrambled out of the building, running down the stairway to the main exit that was locked, 52 victims died from the fire in the stairway and countless were injured. After ......
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