Thread by @ErikLoomis

In 2013, 1,138 Bangladeshi workers died making your clothing. Basically, no on in America cared. But Bangladeshi workers keep fighting. We can do something about this! I wrote a whole book and multiple articles on how to help them achieve fair work!

elle.com/culture/career…

Like, we can actually pass legislation to make corporations accountable for their supply chains, open up American courts to lawsuits over these conditions, and give workers access to the courts created to cover international trade.

We don't because we basically don't want to know enough about these workers to care. It's unacceptable. Even on the left, no one discusses how to fix the avoidable problems of global capitalism and capital mobility. Yet they are actually quite fixable!

I wrote a whole book on this issue, even while I was writing the history book for my tenure, because I am so desperate to bring these issues onto the agenda of the left.

amazon.com/Out-Sight-Corp…

I wrote "A Left Vision for Trade" for Dissent to put this further onto our agenda.

dissentmagazine.org/article/left-v…

I built upon those points for this Boston Review piece, thinking more about the legal structure of controlling the exploitation of international trade.

bostonreview.net/class-inequali…

But with rare exceptions, no journalists write about this stuff, the news about these issues rarely make the US press, and no one demands their politicians talk about it. It's really depressing. Meanwhile, workers keep fighting and dying to make your clothing and other stuff.

It's pretty frustrating for me, but I'm going to keep talking about this stuff until someone pays attention.

And many thanks to @Jenn_Chowdhury for bringing this story to us.