MKT 300 Study Guide - Sewing, Henry Kissinger, Jason Burke
12 Mar 2014
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Hizlapara is a neighbourhood of cement tenements and narrow dirt lanes in the scruffy town of savar on the outskirts of dhaka, bangladesh"s chaotic capital. It is a quiet area, full of hardworking families and young couples who go to bed early and save hard. A 20-minute walk away, a trough full of foul water and debris is all that remains of the rana. Plaza, an eight-storey factory producing cheap clothes for the west, which collapsed six weeks ago. More than 1,100 people died in the disaster, one of the world"s worst industrial accidents, and many came from hizlapara. Every morning the workers walked through its streets to clock in at 8am, climb the single narrow stairwell and start stitching trousers, t-shirts, shorts and sweatshirts for delivery to european high-street retailers. Five of the 20 families living at 62a shobuj bagh, a lane in hizlapara, have suffered some kind of loss.
