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Beyond the Accord | The Daily Star


Beyond the Accord
Disrupting the unequal power relationships between global brands, suppliers and workers is essential for an ethical, sustainable industry
Garment workers shout slogans while holding brooms during a protest demanding their due wages in Dhaka in September 2020. Photo: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters
Eight years ago, one of the worst industrial disasters in history the collapse of an eight storey commercial building in a sub-district of Dhaka demonstrated to the world the heavy price of producing cheap clothing to fuel the fast fashion industry for consumers in the global North. After the Rana Plaza disaster in 2013, the international response concentrated on technocratic approaches to address the lack of worker safety measures by focusing on fire, electrical, and structural improvements to a portion of the country s registered factories. The Accord s tagline is: The Accord helps ready-made garment (RMG) factories in Bangladesh become safe and stay safe ....

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