Slavery in labour

The recent incident of a building collapse in Bangladesh over garment factory workers is yet one more incident that reveals the hard working conditions of laborers in the industry. It is an example of how the human factor has been reduced to working under severe conditions as global capital slaves. The enslavement is such severe that humans under such conditions have to take high risks in order to gain a morsel of food into their mouths and families. Not only does this tragedy reveal the devilish side of capitalism, but it also shows how the system is unjust and lives on the blood of the global poor in basically low and under-developed nations. Tariff concessions on industry, cheap labour, and an abundant workforce are some main factors that attract garment industry investors to poor nations. The irony is that the very countries that earn out of the blood of these workers keep a blind eye to worker rights, and under currently support the investors to boost political economies. Until rulers stand for their own people, laborers in the garment trade will only be able to embrace themselves in death and cry blood as in the picture captured in the aftermath of the tragedy in Savar, Bangladesh.