Ellen Ruppel Shell

The Atlantic

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Correspondent for the Atlantic and Professor of Science Journalism at Boston University; author of Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

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Three weeks after 1127 garment workers died in an eight-story building collapse, the Bangladeshi government has made some concessions to organized labor.

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Three weeks after 1127 garment workers died in an eight-story building collapse, the Bangladeshi government has made some concessions to organized labor.

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