Song of the Shirt - Seabrook Jeremy
Oh, Men, with Sisters dear!Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives!It is not linen you're wearing out,But human creatures' lives!Stitch - stitch - stitch,In poverty, hunger and dirt,Sewing at once, with a…
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Oh, Men, with Sisters dear!Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives!It is not linen you're wearing out,But human creatures' lives!Stitch - stitch - stitch,In poverty, hunger and dirt,Sewing at once, with a double thread,A Shroud as well as a Shirt. -from The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood (1843)In April 2013 Rana Plaza, an unremarkable eight-story commercial block in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,129 people and injuring over 2,000. Most of them were low paid textile workers who had been ordered to return to their cramped workshops the day after ominous cracks were discovered in the building's concrete structure.Rana Plaza's destruction revealed a stark tragedy in the making: of men (in fact mostly women and children) toiling in fragile, flammable buildings who provide the world with limitless cheap garments -