A new book reveals the parallels between the low-paid garment factory workers affected by the Rana Plaza collapse in April 2013 and those in Blackburn’s 19th century workshops.
The Song Of The Shirt – The High Price Of Cheap Garments From Blackburn To Bangladesh by Jeremy Seabrook (Hearst, £14.95) warns that as the demand for bargain clothes and accessories is set to continue and with it the search for the next cheap source of labour – and the next industrial catastrophe.