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April 5, 2011 02:11 PM
A Triangle Shirtwaist-Like Disaster, Buried By the U.S. Press
Outsourcing tragedies while paying a sliver of what our workers made 100 years ago
The Consumerist has a fascinating post asking whether we've really eliminated our Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disasters or if we've just outsourced them. It turns out that a sweatshop in Bangladesh that made clothes for The Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, JC Penney, Target, and others, suffered an eerily Triangle-like disaster just a few months ago: When we noted the 100th anniversary...
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