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The Environmental and Human Health Effects of Outsourcing Garment Production to Bangladesh

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 22, 2013

Why do capitalists move their operations? They do so to maximize profit. But that term is an euphemism that obscures the decisions behind those choices. Profits are great, right! For decades, corporations have shifted operations around the globe, sometimes within the United States but usually between nations, in order to take advantage of lax labor […]

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Clouding the Waters

By Erik Loomis

On July 9, 2013

Tomorrow, something called the Global Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety is set to release its plan to improve working conditions in Bangladesh following the April fire that killed more than 1100 w

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Holding Apparel Corporations Accountable

By Erik Loomis

On July 2, 2013

I was interviewed for this Jake Blumgart article at Alternet on attempts by United Students Against Sweatshops and others in the U.S. to hold apparel corporations accountable for the terrible conditio

More Bangladesh

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 30, 2013

The problem with this article on the power that garment factory owners wield in Bangladeshi politics, making the prosecution of owners of factories where workers die almost impossible, is that it completely ignores the relationship between those factory owners and the multinational apparel companies that make this all possible. Focusing the blame strictly on Bangladeshi […]

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Legally Binding Safety Regulations

By Erik Loomis

On May 23, 2013

Stephen Greenhouse on how American retailers like Wal-Mart and Gap are opposing proposed regulatory plans for factory conditions that produce clothing precisely because they might be legally binding a

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