Translated, the top reads: “The contamination created by the factories poisons the communities and neighborhoods in which the workers live.”
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
It can be difficult to fathom that over 1,000 more people died in the Rana Plaza collapse than in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. In 1911, unionization of those industries before the fire gave workers in the U.S. a forum from which to demand change. Over one hundred years later, workers seeking to organize in other countries face a similar uphill battle.
Kroch Asia Oversize TT496.B3 W46 2015 +
