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Fast fashion still comes with deadly risks, 10 years after the Rana Plaza disaster – the industry's many moving pieces make it easy to cut corners

  • Written by Ravi Anupindi, Professor of Technology and Operations, University of Michigan
Fast fashion still comes with deadly risks, 10 years after the Rana Plaza disaster – the industry's many moving pieces make it easy to cut cornersActivists in Dhaka demand safe working conditions in 2019, on the anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse.Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via Getty Images

On April 24, 2013, a multistory garment factory complex in Bangladesh called Rana Plaza collapsed, killing more than 1,000 workers and injuring another 2,500. It remains the worst accident in the history...

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