In the second and concluding article on sweatshop safety prompted by the
Tazreen disaster in Bangladesh on November 24th, the New York Times
focused on the nonprofit organization founded by Alice Tepper Marlin
that gave Ali Enterprises in Karachi a clean bill of health. Just two
months before the Tazreen fire that resulted in the death of 112
workers, Ali Enterprises was the scene of another and more devastating
version of the latter-day Triangle Waistcoat disasters wrought by
corporate greed:
Fire ravaged a textile factory complex in the commercial hub of Karachi
early Wednesday, killing almost 300 workers trapped behind locked doors
and raising questions about the woeful lack of regulation in a vital
sector of Pakistan’s faltering economy.
full:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/the-blood-on-alice-tepper-marlins-hands/
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