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Research Scholar Sarah Labowitz on factory conditions in Bangladesh

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Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "Although the government has registered only about 3,400 factories, Sarah Labowitz, director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University, has estimated that there are closer to 6,000 -- many of them smaller buildings that subcontract with the larger companies when big orders come in. 'It’s really about the invisible factories,' Labowitz says. 'There’s a network of thousands of factories that don’t maintain direct relationships with buyers. Nobody knows how many there are.'"

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Additional coverage appeared on Foreign Policy.