The Bad Old Days...

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the disaster again underscored the unsafe conditions in Bangladesh's massive garment industry

Presumably only one building had huge cracks that were so big the news reporters came out to report on them. If the industry is a massive one, there have to be lots of shitty jobs at other factories that, while they may be horrible places to work, don't have massive cracks.

I did see a report that said many people were forced to stay in the building, but I don't know what "forced" means. Were they held at gun point? Were they told that they would lose their jobs? Big difference between those two.