The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments from Blackburn to Bangladesh

by Jeremy Seabrook

Book Overview

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)

In April 2013 Rana Plaza, an unremarkable eight-story commercial block in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, collapsed,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849045224
• ISBN13: 9781849045223
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"