How much for that T-shirt ?
https://www.spiegel.de/international/globalsocieties/bangladeshi-textile-workers-parenting-for-11-days-a-year-a-1301537.html"11 days off. For the entire year"
"strapped on her facemask to protect herself from the leers of men and the pollution of the city "
"Bangladesh is considered an economic success story among developing nations. Its per capita GDP has increased sevenfold in the last four decades, from $227 to $1,698. In 2000, half of Bangladesh's now 161 million inhabitants lived beneath the poverty line. Now only about a quarter do. "
"an agrarian region afflicted by starvation, cyclones and flooding."
"Macy's, Coats, Walmart. "
"Roughly a third of the country's factories now have fire alarms, sprinklers and fire extinguishers."
"Begum works in one of the company's smaller factories. But here, the manager says confidentially, nothing has changed. "
"Six days per week, nine hours per day, she says, she sews in the factory. She earns about 88 euros per month, or 8,400 taka."
"What are my options? I'm not educated"
"a small room, 4-by-4 meters, and a shared toilet. The main problem, she says, is that though the minimum wage has doubled, prices have gone up too."
"Cost of living has risen by 86 percent between 2013 and 2018"
"As soon as they get a raise, the landlords and store owners raise their prices too."
"My dream life was different"
" "I'm pregnant," she told him."
" "Get an abortion," he said."
"Some parents don't bother to come home at all. "
"Two of their six children died. Their first son gambled away the family's money. And Tasnia got sick. She had a fever, cough and no appetite. The family says they had to borrow money to pay for Tasnia to go to the hospital. Eventually, their debt grew to over 3,000 euros -- around 300,000 taka. Tasnia Begum has managed to repay about a third to the lenders, or as she puts it, the "money sharks." "
"She sews to pay back the debts of her parents."
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