ipl-logo

Film Analysis: The Rana Plaza

537 Words3 Pages

Lastly, society should be encouraged to purchase Fair Trade to improve working conditions. The Rana Plaza was a large textile factory for clothing, and on April 24, 2013, it collapsed. In the film Fashion Victims it states, “The Rana Plaza building rubble buried thousands; over 1000 died, over 100 had limbs amputated” (Fashion Victims). These were men and women that were not given an option on whether or not to come to work, even though they all could see how dangerous the building was. The day before the Rana Plaza collapsed, cracks appeared on the third floor of the building, and it was evacuated for the afternoon. That day, the owner of the building went on television to stress that the building was safe, and the next day, the garment …show more content…

When the building collapsed on them, it should not have been as big of surprise as it ended up being. The building was structurally unsound and the owner knew this, but garment factories can not afford to go out of business for even a day. They earn extremely little money to start with, so any missed days takes a large toll on the owners of these factories. Most people would think that after the tragedy of the Rana Plaza, other textile factories would have higher standards, but sadly, this is not the case. In the film The Cost of Cloth: Ethical Textiles it describes a regular textile factory found today. Each one of the floors of the five story building is expected to produce more than 20,000 articles of clothing a day. They have few standards for safety within these factories (The Cost of Cloth: Ethical Textiles). With these low standards, the chance of a disaster similar to the Rana Plaza happening again is extremely likely. The workers within these factories go in everyday with a constant fear that they are going to become physically hurt. The buildings themselves are dangerous, but that is just a contributor to their already over demanding treacherous

Show More
Related

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Essay

    738 Words  | 3 Pages

    First, the acting fire department commissioner could have enforced the owners and workers to participate in fire drills. These drills could have deterred the number of employees that traveled to the roof and prevented the number of employees that ultimately jumped to their death. While New York at the time was working on passing stricter factory fire protection laws, there should have been more fire inspections at this particular facility due to the four previous fires that had occurred. When we look closely at this fire, blueprints show that the stairwells were only a mere 33 inches wide. With the amount of workers entering and exiting this building 33 inches is not enough when large quantities of people must exit quickly while fire personnel is coming to distinguish any fires.

    Read More

  • How Did The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Of 1911

    745 Words  | 3 Pages

    Blanck and Harris were warned by phone and escaped by going up to the roof and crossing the building next door. No one notified the sewing machine operators on the ninth floor. Once the workers started to see and smell the smoke, the everyday exit was already blocked by smoke and fire. Many of the workers ran towards the fire escape or the 2 passenger elevators. The only precaution was 12 red buckets of water.

    Read More

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Labor

    318 Words  | 2 Pages

    In Out of Sight, Erik Loomis chooses to begin his work with the Triangle Shirtwaist factory and continues with the Rana Plaza Factory collapsing in Bangladesh. Both of these disasters caused several people to lose their lives, especially women, because of safety issues. In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist factory caught on fire in NYC and 146 female garment workers died, therefore; there were changes to the labor laws in the United States. The United States Department of Labor classified a set of standards as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). “Factories rarely, if ever, receive even a minimal safety inspection.”

    Read More

  • What Is The Significance Of The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

    1000 Words  | 4 Pages

    Yet there was still the responsibility of finding who locked the doors, which led to the District Attorney’s office to seek an indictment against the owners. A grand jury indicted Blanck and Harris on seven counts, charging them with manslaughter in the second degree, under section 80 of the Labor Code, which mandated that all doors must be unlocked during business hours. Twenty-three days after the trial had started, a jury acquitted Blanck and Harris of any wrong doing. The jurors had the task to determine whether the owners had known whether not the doors were locked. Twenty-three civil suits were brought against the owners of the Asch building.

    Read More

  • What Are The Effects Of The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

    880 Words  | 4 Pages

    The two owners of the company Harris and Blanck did not care for a safe working environment all they wanted was for there workers to work and make money for them. The owners actually knew about the fire before it would destroy the upper floors, they didn't tell any of there workers so they could save their selves. What's ironic about this situation is that the building that was destroyed by a fire was supposed to be fireproof. Even though this seems like a lot of negatives there was a positive to this fire. Many leaders you have heard of would lead a revolution, this revolution being some of the people that made it out of the fire would end up revolting against there companies.

    Read More

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Essay

    644 Words  | 3 Pages

    It should also be noted that at many other factories, conditions may have been even worse than at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, so there was not really a better option available for these workers. The government at the time had a history of not intervening in big business, better known as a laissez-faire approach. There were no regulations on how many hours owners could make their employees work, as well as no minimum wage, so owners exploited their workers and unless the

    Read More

  • Textile Factories Dbq

    245 Words  | 1 Pages

    The textile factories were an unsafe and unheathly place for working class families to work. These factories were unsafe for children to work because the factories would over work the children,give them a insuffient diet and the factories were filled with diseases. For example a testimony from Joesph Hebergram to the Sadler committee he said; ‘i have damged lunges. my lgs muscles do not function properly and will not support the weight of my bones... the doctor told me that it was caused by dust in the factory,from being over worked and a insufficient diet.

    Read More

  • Why Is Upton Sinclair Important To Public Health

    755 Words  | 4 Pages

    However, it is important to note that the workers were still not truly benefitting at this point; exploitation and abuse in slightly cleaner facilities where one is less likely to lose a hand is still exploitation and

    Read More

  • Triangle Fire Analysis

    738 Words  | 3 Pages

    In April 2013, Matthew Yglesias, an American Economics Journalist proposed the people of Bangladesh would not appreciate having stronger safety standards in their country because it would cause undue harm economically. He asserts Bangladesh should have different lower standards for safety because they are a poorer country. Most of the people involved in the New York tragedy of 1911 also known as the Triangle Fire, would not agree with Matthew Yglesias on his assertion that lower economic status would be an indication of lower safety standards in factories. Namely, the workers, the union leaders, the progressive reformers and the political leaders would all vote for higher standards commiserate with the United States. The only ones who would not argue with Yglesias are the owners of the Triangle Factory with their vested interest, their own problems of multiple fires and accusations of safety neglect.

    Read More

  • Worker Safety Dbq

    226 Words  | 1 Pages

    One of the policies that city comes up with after March 25th, 1911 was worker safety. After The Triangle factory fire and the number of victims helped peoples to fight for worker safety with reason “ Lives were lost because the need for profit was placed above the importance of worker safety. Outrage about the senseless deaths helped to mobilize a city and a nation to institute policies and legislation for worker safety. ”(Janelle. Hinds,The New York Amsterdam News).

    Read More

  • Gilded Age Essay

    1577 Words  | 7 Pages

    The work was also dangerous with not much supervising by the government. Workers, on the other hand, had little or even no bargaining power to leave the unsafe conditions. Nowadays, When Americans only pay attention when extreme work strike, levels of abuse are the norm hidden in the factories around the globe. Although the condition seems much improved, consumers don’t know the true fact- “Today, American citizens simply cannot know the working conditions of the factories that make the products they buy.

    Read More

  • Monopolies During The Progressive Era

    560 Words  | 3 Pages

    At the beginning of the Progressive Era there were many issues involving the unregulated businesses. Most of the problems involved safety issues that severely injured many workers, but it also involved business created monopolies to maximize their profits which affected the consumers because there was not a competitive price. This is why the American Government should be able to put regulations and laws in place to restrict businesses from unfair treatment of their workers health and safety; also, to limit the possibility of monopolies occurring to protect the consumers of the products. Many businesses now follow these laws and regulations put in place by our government which makes the story of how America was built one of progress not regresion.

    Read More

  • Essay On Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

    1279 Words  | 6 Pages

    Additionally, the factory's ventilation was subpar, exposing the staff to hazardous chemicals and dust. The countdown of the fire was initiated by many safety hazards that made the building more prone to fires starting. Firstly, before the fire started, in garment factories it was normal to fill buckets with water in case of a fire. Although this was a normal practice, Mary Domsy-Abrams recalled ‘“On that particular morning, the day of the tragedy, I remarked to my colleagues that the buckets were empty, and that if anything were to happen, they would be of no use,”’ she said” (Kiger 2019). The lack of a sprinkler and a fire system also proved to be a huge safety hazard.

    Read More

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Research Paper

    1154 Words  | 5 Pages

    The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire helped prepare for a series of laws that improved the working conditions for the workers. The Triangle Shirtwaist fire is very similar to the Bangladesh industry crash which also had unfair working conditions that led to laws being established and factories having more inspections. According to guardian.com’s article, Bangladesh factory collapse blamed on swampy ground and heavy machinery, they stated, “The disaster highlighted the hazardous working conditions in the Bangladesh garment industry and the lack of safety of workers who are lowly paid.” Though the owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory were discharged of their consequences, the Bangladesh owners did receive their consequences for mistreating the workers. In total the Bangladesh crash killed more than 2,500 people, this crash led people to take action causing the shutdown of 28 garment factories for safety reasons.

    Read More

  • Annotated Bibliography On Fast Fashion

    822 Words  | 4 Pages

    Second Assignment – Annotated Bibliography and Thesis Statement by Cheryl Chi Yue Leung (214185045) York University NATS 1840 15th January 2016 Thesis: How material elements of the modern fast fashion practice reinforce the meanings of unethical production, and thus explain low prices come with low product quality and negative environmental and social impacts Annotated Bibliography 1) Anguelov, N. CRC Press. (September 2015) The dirty side of the garment Industry: fast fashion and its negative impact on environment and society.

    Read More

More about Film Analysis: The Rana Plaza

Open Document