1. Bangladesh factory fire: brands accused of criminal negligence
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Clean Clothes Campaign, along with trade unions & labour rights organisation, is calling for immediate action from international brands following the fire in Dhaka Bangladesh which killed over 100 workers.
2. Bangladesh's exploitation economy
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   Before the collapse of Rana Plaza, which killed over a thousand people, most of them textile workers, there was the fire that killed a hundred at the Tazreen factory. A major cause is western companies' greed for profits.
3. Cheap Clothing - At Whose Expense?
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1978
   
4. Climate Crisis, the Deindustrialization Imperative and the Jobs vs. Environment Dilemma
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   So long as we live under capitalism, today, tomorrow, next year and every year thereafter, economic growth will always be the overriding priority till we barrel right off the cliff to collapse.
5. Common Sense for Hard Times
   The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1976
   Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
   
6. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
   Economic Writings 1
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2013
   This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
7. Connexions
   Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1980
   
8. False Promises
   The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1973
   
9. Gandhi's Truth
   On the origins of militant nonviolence
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1969
   An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
10. J.P. Stevens - Boycott Kit
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
    This kit provides extensive background information on the organized boycott against J.P. Stevens and Company Inc. The boycott, now in its third year, was organized to bring wide attention to the unjust and dangerous working conditions in the 85 textile plants of J.P. Stevens. Over 45,000 women and men are employed by the multi-national corporation that operates mostly in North and South Carolina, U.S.A.
11. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
12. No Sweat
    Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Surveys the chasm between the glamour of the catwalk and the squalor of the sweatshop.
13. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
    Public Safety
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
14. Spadina's Life Blood --- A Picture of its garment industry
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
    
15. The Textile and Clothing INdustries in Canada: A Profile
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1980
    
16. They Are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders
    Global Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on more than one occasion, already threatened his life - attempts to get the country’s underpaid, under-benefited workers to join a labor union? Answer: They kill him.
17. Why Workplace "Accidents" Happen
    Safety Costs Money
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Many industrial and manufacturing companies resort to almost any means (some of them not entirely legal) to dissuade employees from joining a union because besides having to offer higher wages and improved benefits (and giving employees a voice in how they’re treated by management), they are required to provide a safe work environment. Safety costs money and every company is interested in saving money.

Experts on Textile Industry in the Sources Directory

1. International Labor Rights Forum