SOCI 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Joe Fresh, Matthew Yglesias, Slate (Magazine)
11 Sep 2014
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Factory collapse in bangladesh april 24, 2013 large garment factory in the dhaka district of bangladesh collapsed joe fresh clothing production building structure was unsound there were 3,000 people working in that building. European firms jumped on board with the idea of creating a new safety accord. Gap and walmart refused to take part of the agreement because agreement would make brands liable for lawsuits should the factories collapse and kill ppl transactional mobilization of labour and activists ag. Walmart and the gap protest at walmart"s shareholder meeting in june 2013, arkansas student protest at gap store in june 2013, washington dc. Slate magazine, fox, twitter argues foreign factories should be more dangerous ok to have these differential standards in terms of how work and production is done in diff. countries. What kind of research problems should be build from yglesias" statement? (if it helps, use different frames discussed earlier)
