[THS] The High Cost of Cheap Fashion

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Bangladesh garment protests spread to Dhaka streets:

For four hours, a 15,000-strong crowd of garment workers, who sew clothes for top
Western brands, blocked the city's main Rokeya highway, hurling rocks at riot police
who responded with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon.
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The High Cost of Cheap Fashion:

What has been liberating for Western women is a system built literally on the backs of
women in the developing world. How do Primark and its competitors in the West's
shopping malls and High Streets keep that cute frock so cheap? By starving and
oppressing Bangladeshi, Chinese, Mexican, Haitian, and other women, that's how.
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