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Topic: Garment workers

A still from "Made in Cambodia" (Asad Faruqi)

The human cost of cheap clothes

Tom Roston

The true cost of fashion

Lindsay Abrams
Women work at a garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh. (Reuters/Andrew Biraj)

Natasha Lennard
Firefighters try to control a fire in a garment factory in the Bangladeshi town of Gazipur, 40 km (25 miles) north of Dhaka October 9, 2013. (Reuters)

Lindsay Abrams
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Katie McDonough
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Julhas Alam
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Wal-Mart: Safety too pricey

Natasha Lennard
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