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Families show pictures of missing relatives.                                    Xinhua/Landov/Barcroft Media

The appalling and heartbreaking loss of life ~ an estimated 400 died ~ in the collapse of a Bangladeshi garment factory (read: sweatshop) on April 24 that then caught fire is certainly not the first such disaster in recent years. In fact, it was also in Bangladesh, in November 2012, that a factory fire left 112 dead and, two months later, another one killed 7. And that doesn't even begin to cover the avoidable accidents that leave workers burned and otherwise injured, or the horrid conditions in which they work and live (story, slideshow): http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/29/inside-bangladesh-garment-factories and (story): http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/death-traps-the-bangladesh-garment-factory-disaster.html
   Of course, Bangladesh is not the only country in which these things happen. We hear only the worst, but we know it happens in most third-world countries. All of which has many Americans (I sincerely hope) wondering how they can make sure that what they buy was made by workers who are being treated ethically. Here are some guidelines: http://www.ecouterre.com/how-can-we-make-sure-our-clothes-werent-made-in-a-sweatshop/