“The worst industrial fire in history broke out on May 10, 1993, at the Kader Industrial Toy Company, just outside of Bangkok. Hundreds of workers, mainly young women, were trapped inside a building with no fire extinguishers or alarms and no fire escapes. More concerned with profits than human life, management blocked off the exits. Officially 188 workers died. Others are still listed as ‘missing.’ The fire was all but ignored by the world’s media. The ugly truth behind Asia’s much-vaunted ‘economic miracle’ proved too unpalatable… The Kader workers slaved for less than $1 an hour to make toys for corporate giants such as Toys ‘R’ Us, Hasbro and Tyco… [P]rovides a unique insight into the global economic processes that are drawing millions of rural toilers in Asia, Latin America and Africa into the factories and shantytowns of cities like Bangkok.”

Publisher: Labour
Paperback: 79 pages
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