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For more than 40 years the Historic Documents series has made primary source research easy by presenting full primary documents and excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the United States and the world. Each volume includes approximately 70 events with well over 100 documents from the previous year, from official or other influential reports and surveys, to speeches from leaders and opinion makers, to court cases, legislation, testimony, and much more.
Historic Documents is renowned for the well-written and informative background, history, and context it provides for each document. Each volume begins with an insightful essay that sets the year's events in context, and each document or group of documents is preceded by a comprehensive introduction that provides background information on the event. Full-source citations are provided. Readers have easy access to material through a detailed, thematic table of contents and a cumulative five-year index that directs them to related material in earlier volumes.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister and U.S. President on Garment Industry: May 1 and 3, and June 27, 2013
Bangladeshi Prime Minister and U.S. President on Garment Industry: May 1 and 3, and June 27, 2013
On April 24, 2013, the eight-story Rana Plaza building collapsed, killing more than 1,000 people. The Rana Plaza housed five garment factories supplying products to major retail outlets in Europe and North America. The disaster highlighted major safety deficiencies in Bangladeshi garment factories, as well as poor wages and a dire lack of adherence to building codes during construction. Bangladesh's garment industry is second only to China's in terms of its size and accounts for around 80 percent of the country's more than $27 billion in export receipts. Subsequent to the disaster, ...
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