"Reporter's notebook: Going undercover inside Bangladesh garment factory" - Holly Williams - CBS News

Byline: Holly Williams; 2013-05-23; CBS News; 

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". . .To get a candid view of Bangladesh's garment factories, we posed as buyers. We told the managers we met that we wanted to source clothes as cheaply as possible.What we saw inside some of their factories was hair-raising. In one four-story facility we noticed there were hardly any fire extinguishers. On a floor where several hundred workers toiled over sewing machines, we counted only two extinguishers. Signs on the wall marked where they should have been. . ."

Description:Reporters from CBS News went undercover as buyers in Dhaka, Bangladesh to reveal the harsh working conditions in many garment factories.

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