How we can use the law to make the fashion industry fairer to women and the earth
- Written by: Mark Liu, Visiting Scholar: School of Architecture and School of Engineering, University of Technology Sydney
In March 1911, in a garment factory in Manhattan, over 100 people, mostly Jewish and Italian women migrants, some as young as 14, were trapped inside and died as the factory burnt to the floor. Management had locked the doors.
In the following years, women workers mobilised. Their protests catalysed major law reforms in the US which are still...
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