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Dying for the shirt on your back
The deaths of more than 600 garment workers in Bangladesh's Rana Plaza factory collapse April 24 is a tragedy that highlights widespread problems in the global apparel industry. But will it be the spark that finally leads to much-needed global reforms?...Tags: Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Periodicals, New York City
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Will this be Bangladesh's Triangle fire moment?
Last week, more than 300 people were killed in the collapse of a building that housed clothing manufacturers in the Dhaka region of Bangladesh. Many dozens more may be buried in the rubble. Just five months earlier, 112 workers died in a factory fire,...
Tags: Labor Markets, Lower East Side, Immigration, New York City, Bangladesh
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Catherine O'Neill dies at 70; political activist, women's advocate
Catherine O'Neill, a social worker turned political activist and advocate for refugee women who co-founded the watchdog group now called the Women's Refugee Commission, died of cancer Wednesday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. She was 70. Her death...
Tags: Democratic Party, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, International Relations, Columbia University, Elections
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Students On Campus: To Stay Or Go?
The Hartford CourantFor many students on Connecticut college campuses most affected by the weekend's snowstorm, Monday was a day of decision-making. Should they stay or should they go? For Lauren Poremski and Christy Taylor, the answer came late Monday afternoon, when...Tags: University of Hartford, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Wesleyan University, New York City, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Andy Albeck dies at 89; former head of United Artists
Andy Albeck, a former longtime United Artists executive whose tenure as president and chief executive in the late 1970s and early '80s was clouded by the high-profile failure of the epic western "Heaven's Gate," has died. He was 89.
Albeck died of...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Career and Workplace, Retirement, Japan, New York City
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