Clothes To Die For Sparknotes

Clothes to die for. Centered around the worst industrial disaster in modern history, Clothes to Die For is a documentary that calls attention to the injustices that occur in the garment industry. In April 2013, Bangladeshi garment workers experienced the collapse of the eight-story Rana Plaza building and the consequences were devastating. As a result of poor infrastructure and ignorance of the government, more than 1,100 were killed and 2500 injured. Unfortunately, this tragic accident has had little effects on the current exploitation of garment factory workers. This paper will examine how the events documented are directly related to global economics, and women’s low social and economic status. Additionally, this paper will look at this

According to Motapanyane (2017), this is primarily due to the fact that previously women were not allowed land ownership or be in the possession of funds within a family dynamic. As described in Clothes to Die For, many women in Bangladesh were not only reliant on their male counterpart but are also largely illiterate and uneducated. These factors have lead to many women in modern-day countries being largely dependant on family members or significant others. Originally, Noorul Quader founded the export garment factory business as a way of growing Bangladesh's economy, but Quader was also focused on creating independence among women. This documentary depicts many young women who have sought work in the capital city, Dhaka, in order to gain

The young women featured at the beginning of Matthews, et al.’s (2014) documentary are shown creating “haul” videos, presenting the clothing they had purchased while shopping. There is a bittersweet irony of featuring these women at the beginning of this documentary. The clothing they’ve so easily purchased has been made on the exploited backs of Bangladeshi women. When looking at this through an intersectional lens, we see the push for young women in western cultures to conform to gender roles and norms are similar to the struggles the Bangladeshi women face as well. In Matthews, et al.’s documentary we see these young women working at abusive jobs and then shopping at markets. As previously mentioned, once receiving paychecks these women would go the market and treat themselves to expensive items they would have once not been able to afford. The sociatel push for young western women has caused trends to come and go faster than ever, resulting in an increased need for mass-produced clothing. This, in turn, contributes to the young women in Bangladesh conforming to the societal norms seen in their own culture. Though these women are experiencing this issue differently, it is essentially two sides of the same