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New book charts history of garment factories from Blackburn to Bangladesh

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The Song Of The Shirt offers 'the larger picture of disdain and disregard for the lives of the working poor', says Outlook India

The Song Of The Shirt offers ‘the larger picture of disdain and disregard for the lives of the working poor’, says Outlook India

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.



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