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Research Scholar Sarah Labowitz is interviewed about the Center for Business and Human Rights' research on worker safety in Bangladesh
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Excerpt from Behind the Thread -- "Our research is on the nature of the supply chain in Bangladesh. And what we found is there are so many more factories than anyone had previously understood. And moreover that the global fashion industry, the fashion brands that rely on Bangladesh as a major sourcing destination are only really acknowledging those factories at the tip of the iceberg. In some ways, they're kind of cherry-picking the best factories and doing a lot of monitoring and having relationships with those factories. But those factories are supported by a wide network of indirect sourcing factories, subcontractors that, in our metaphor, are really below the surface."
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