The Collapse Of Rana Plaza

The collapsing of the Rana Plaza building in the Dhaka suburb of Savar, is a tragic incident that occurred on April 24, 2013 (Prashad 2013). The Rana Plaza building was the establishment that had workers who were the commodity of the production of garments that are sold to the Western market. A couple days post-collapse, it was reported that the death toll was well into the triple-digits. This paper will draw on the details of pre- and post- Rana Plaza's collapsing while connecting it to Marx and

A Discussion on Rana Plaza Collapse Introduction The aim of this report is to discuss the collapse of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, in what is to date the worst structural engineering failure. The failure caused significant losses of lives, (1129 lives), over 2500 non-fatal injuries and five garment industries lost their machinery, and the building was entirely destroyed as well. The report also demonstrates that the collapse of Rana Plaza was due to primary causes of engineering failures. These include;

structural failure of the Rana Plaza collapse, an eight-story commercial building, occurred on 24 April 2013 in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh. This resulted in 1,137 confirmed dead at Rana Plaza, and over a year later 200 are still missing (Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, 2015). The issue is an ethical issue which has affected many lives in Bangladesh and resulted in western civilisation demanding change. The ethical issue involves around a Bangladesh man Sohel Rana, and western clothing

incident occurred on 24th April 2013-Rana Plaza Collapse has great impact on the overall garment industry of Bangladesh. Several campaigns were carried out to ensure that victims and their families were compensated fairly. These campaigns took into account about compensating the injured, for the loss of several lives. According to the Clean Clothes Campaign and International Labor Right Forum the article publishes on the third anniversary of Rana Plaza Collapse (Boogert, 2016) reported that, On September

This article addresses how working conditions of garment workers in global South have merely changed after Rana Plaza collapse in 2013 and struggles on implementing corrective action plans in factories due to companies’ apathetic actions towards this approach. This collapse is widely known as killing thousands of people at Rana Plaza, an eight-story factory located in Bangladesh’s capital city that consisted several factories manufacturing clothing for multinational brands such as Walmart and Joe

The individuals who worked in the Rana Plaza factory were making clothes for “Primark, Benetton, Walmart and other Wester brands” but were paid wages as low as US$68 a month (ibid). Although the operations that take place in Bangladesh supply clothing to these corporations in the developed

Sociological Ideas of Globalisation: The Rana Plaza Garment Factory Disaster in Dhaka, Bangladesh On the 24th of April 2013, a tragedy occurred in Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in the deaths of more than 1000 people and the destruction of a nine-story garment factory “Rana Plaza” (Manik& Yardley, n.d.,). However, the unsatisfactory condition of the building was known to employees. The day before the tragedy, several cracks were noticed, yet the owner of the factory ignored the warning by police

loss of life with plenty of opportunity to prevent it. None is truer than the disaster of the Savar building (Rana Plaza) collapse in April 2013 in Dhaka, Bangladesh which resulted in the death toll upward of 1,053. At Rana plaza, corporate greed, corrupt government, and exploitation of the poor combined to allow for the deadliest garment factory massacre in history. The collapse of the plaza can be analyzed from two points of views. One is structurally, or as a physical failure, which was caused by

industrial disaster in US history and Deadliest garment-factory/ accidental structural failure accident in history Modern sweat shops are problems. After researching the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in Manhattan ,New York and the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Both industrial suburb, I notice very little change in the business practice, morals, and ethics that fuel the sweatshop motif of cheap labor to keep profits high and costs low. Both incidents involved garment factory

Factories workers did not feel any value in choosing to put their lives in danger by working in dangerous buildings, which could collapse anytime for monthly earnings. Victims did not have any comfort while working within such conditions (Anisul Huq, Stevenson, & Zorzini, 2014). The five factories that occupied Rana Plaza were unhappy that they would not produce the clothing and other garments anymore. Customers were willing to boycott them immediately after the disaster.