The Bengali population, specifically the working women communities, have been revolting against fast fashion industries due to lack of fair wage, appropriate working conditions, clean environments, and much more (Mallet, 2020).
Fast Fashion is controlled based upon demand. The industry ultimately pumps out clothing at a rapid rate; so stores have the clothes in the stock before the trend fades out. Overall, the American and European demand for Bangladeshi produce is consistently increasing which overall creates the trend of having lower wages, significantly has precarious working conditions and damaging environmental impacts (Roturier, 2023).
Fast fashion has a strong demand for low quality working conditions, which can ultimately lead to horrific disasters within garmet factories. In 2005 specifically, a garment factory collapsed within Dhaka with killed 64 people and injured more than 100 others. In 2010, a Bangladeshi factory had a fire and killed 26 and more than 100 people are injured. Another fire in 2012 killed 112 workers and more than 150 people were injured too. However, the worst case of tragic garment factory disaster was the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka. It housed five garment factories that sold countries within North America and In Europe (Roturier, 2023).
Mallett, Tessa. Bangladesh: Fast Fashion but at What Cost? MSU IRL. 2020.