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The Song of the Shirt - The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh (Paperback)
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The Song of the Shirt - The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh (Paperback)
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Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is
not linen you re wearing out, But human creatures lives! Stitch
stitch stitch, In poverty, hunger and dirt, Sewing at once, with a
double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. --from The Song of the
Shirt by Thomas Hood (1843) Labour in Bangladesh flows like its
rivers -- in excess of what is required. Often, both take a huge
toll. Labour that costs $1.66 an hour in China and 52 cents in
India can be had for a song in Bangladesh -- 18 cents. It is mostly
women and children working in fragile, flammable buildings who
bring in 70 per cent of the country s foreign exchange. Bangladesh
today does not clothe the nakedness of the world, but provides it
with limitless cheap garments -- through Primark, Walmart,
Benetton, Gap. In elegiac prose, Jeremy Seabrook dwells upon the
disproportionate sacrifices demanded by the manufacture of such
throwaway items as baseball caps. He shows us how Bengal and
Lancashire offer mirror images of impoverishment and affluence. In
the eighteenth century, the people of Bengal were dispossessed of
ancient skills and the workers of Lancashire forced into labour
settlements.In a ghostly replay of traffic in the other direction,
the decline of the British textile industry coincided with
Bangladesh becoming one of the world s major clothing exporters.
With capital becoming more protean than ever, it wouldn t be long
before the global imperium readies to shift its sites of
exploitation in its nomadic cultivation of profit.
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