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The Song Of The Shirt
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Author : Jeremy Seabrook
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-10
The Song Of The Shirt written by Jeremy Seabrook and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-10 with Social Science categories.
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 - through Walmart, Benetton and Gap - and bring in 70% of Bangladesh's foreign exchange. In elegiac prose, Jeremy Seabrook investigates the disproportionate sacrifices demanded by the manufacture of such throwaway items as baseball caps and sweatshirts. He also traces the intertwined histories of workers in what is now Bangladesh, and Lancashire. Two hundred years ago the former were dispossessed of ancient skills and their counterparts in Lancashire forced into labour settlements; in a ghostly replay of traffic in the other direction, the decline of Britain's textile industry coincided with Bangladesh becoming one of the world's major clothing exporters. The two examples offer mirror images of impoverishment and affluence. With capital becoming more protean than ever, it won't be long before global business, in its nomadic cultivation of profit, relocates mass textile manufacture to an even cheaper source of labour than Bangladesh, with all too predictable consequences for those involved.
The Song Of The Shirt
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Author : Jeremy Seabrook
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Song Of The Shirt written by Jeremy Seabrook and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Clothing trade categories.
The Song Of The Shirt
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Author : Jeremy Seabrook
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-10
The Song Of The Shirt written by Jeremy Seabrook and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-10 with Social Science categories.
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 - through Walmart, Benetton and Gap - and bring in 70% of Bangladesh's foreign exchange. In elegiac prose, Jeremy Seabrook investigates the disproportionate sacrifices demanded by the manufacture of such throwaway items as baseball caps and sweatshirts. He also traces the intertwined histories of workers in what is now Bangladesh, and Lancashire. Two hundred years ago the former were dispossessed of ancient skills and their counterparts in Lancashire forced into labour settlements; in a ghostly replay of traffic in the other direction, the decline of Britain's textile industry coincided with Bangladesh becoming one of the world's major clothing exporters. The two examples offer mirror images of impoverishment and affluence. With capital becoming more protean than ever, it won't be long before global business, in its nomadic cultivation of profit, relocates mass textile manufacture to an even cheaper source of labour than Bangladesh, with all too predictable consequences for those involved.
The Song Of The Shirt
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Author : Jeremy Seabrook
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-10
The Song Of The Shirt written by Jeremy Seabrook and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-10 with Social Science categories.
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 - through Walmart, Benetton and Gap - and bring in 70% of Bangladesh's foreign exchange. In elegiac prose, Jeremy Seabrook investigates the disproportionate sacrifices demanded by the manufacture of such throwaway items as baseball caps and sweatshirts. He also traces the intertwined histories of workers in what is now Bangladesh, and Lancashire. Two hundred years ago the former were dispossessed of ancient skills and their counterparts in Lancashire forced into labour settlements; in a ghostly replay of traffic in the other direction, the decline of Britain's textile industry coincided with Bangladesh becoming one of the world's major clothing exporters. The two examples offer mirror images of impoverishment and affluence. With capital becoming more protean than ever, it won't be long before global business, in its nomadic cultivation of profit, relocates mass textile manufacture to an even cheaper source of labour than Bangladesh, with all too predictable consequences for those involved.
The Song Of The Shirt
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Author : Jeremy Seabrook
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-04
The Song Of The Shirt written by Jeremy Seabrook and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04 with Clothing trade categories.
Labour in Bangladesh flows like its rivers--in excess of what is required. Often, both take a huge toll. Labour that costs $1.66 an hour in China and 52 cents in India can be had for a song in Bangladesh -- 18 cents. It is mostly women and children working in fragile, flammable buildings who bring in 70 per cent of the country's foreign exchange. Bangladesh today does not clothe the nakedness of the world, but provides it with limitless cheap garments -- through Primark, Walmart, Benetton, Gap. In elegiac prose, Jeremy Seabrook dwells upon the disproportionate sacrifices demanded by the manufacture of such throwaway items as baseball caps. He shows us how Bengal and Lancashire offer mirror images of impoverishment and affluence. In the eighteenth century, the people of Bengal were dispossessed of ancient skills and the workers of Lancashire forced into labour settlements. In a ghostly replay of traffic in the other direction, the decline of the British textile industry coincided with Bangladesh becoming one of the world's major clothing exporters. With capital becoming more protean than ever, it wouldn't be long before the global imperium readies to shift its sites of exploitation in its nomadic cultivation of profit.
Song Of The Shirt
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Author : Paula Boock
language : en
Publisher: Longacre Press
Release Date : 1993
Song Of The Shirt written by Paula Boock and has been published by Longacre Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with New Zealand drama categories.
A group of struggling seamstresses overcome the sweating crisis of 1889 to establish the first women's union in N.Z.; a classroom project on famous New Zealanders challenges conventional views of history; and an ordinary Saturday night in an ordinary New Zealand home provides the setting for a contemporary rock musical with Shakespearean references. Each play is complemented with work exercises, topics for debate and ideas for further research. Suggested level: senior secondary.
Songs Of Ourselves
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Author : Cambridge International Examinations
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-31
Songs Of Ourselves written by Cambridge International Examinations and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-31 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This series contains poetry and prose anthologies composed of writers from across the English-speaking world.
Dirt On My Shirt Selected Poems
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Author : Jeff Foxworthy
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10
Dirt On My Shirt Selected Poems written by Jeff Foxworthy and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
In this hilarious collection of poems, comedian Jeff Foxworthy creates a neighborhood filled with fun, family, friends, and more. Here you'll meet Cousin Lizzy, Uncle Ed and Aunt Foo Foo, cows with horns that don't go beep, dads in sweaters, also sheep. From the thrill of flying to the imaginary planet Woosocket to bonding with a friend over a shared hatred of spinach, these poems capture the very essence of being a kid. Filled with sly humor and always affectionate, "Dirt on My Shirt" is sure to delight kids, big and little, everywhere.
The T Shirt Song
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Author : Claude Belanger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The T Shirt Song written by Claude Belanger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Children's songs categories.
Best Remembered Poems
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Author : Martin Gardner
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Best Remembered Poems written by Martin Gardner and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Poetry categories.
The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th- and 20th-century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence" of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical "The Owl and the Pussycat."nbsp; Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman and Frost are well-represented, as are less well-known poets.