Here’s a footnote to the series of posts I ran on the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh. It concerns the ‘free’ choice aspect of people working in unsafe conditions.
The 19-year-old seamstress [Reshma Begum] who spent 17 days trapped in the rubble of a collapsed factory building said Monday that she will never again work in a Bangladesh garment factory.
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“I will not work in a garment factory again,” she said.
From which one may infer that even people in very poor countries prefer not to have buildings collapsing on them. The death toll from the disaster has now passed 1,100.