A garment factory worker hangs clothes to dry on the roof of a factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Obama administration suspended US trade privileges for Bangladesh because concern over worker rights after the Rana plaza garment factory collapsed, killing 1,129. Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters/File
A worker looks on at a garment factory at Hlaing Tar Yar industry zone in Yangon, March 10, 2010. Western sanctions that have decimated Myanmar's once-thriving garment sector have led to a rare spate of strikes that have unnerved its military rulers, fearful of civil unrest in the run-up to long-awaited elections. Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
Bm casual clothing lies amid rubble at the site of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 25, 2013. The death toll reached at least 194 people as rescuers continued to search for injured and missing, after a huge section of an eight-story building that housed several garment factories splintered into a pile of concrete. A.M.Ahad/AP
An employee works at a textile mill in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, March 28, 2013. China's factory activity likely expanded at its fastest rate in 11 months in March, with an anticipated pick-up in both domestic and external demand set to bolster the case that its economic recovery is gathering pace, not simply stabilizing, a Reuters poll found. China Daily/Reuters
Workers of Indian garment manufacturers shout slogans during a protest in New Delhi, March 15, 2011. Thousands of garment manufacturer workers protested against the imposition of 10 percent excise duty on the industry in the union budget, a media release said. Adnan Abidi/Reuters
Leon Powell works on a garment at bespoke Savile Row tailors Anderson & Sheppard in central London, February 14, 2013. A number of other houses on Savile Row have also enjoyed over 10 percent growth in recent years with total revenue for the informal group of suitmakers now estimated to be 30-35 million pounds. Andrew Winning/Reuters
A child jumps on the waste products that are used to make poultry feed as she plays in a tannery at Hazaribagh in Dhaka, October 9, 2012. Luxury leather goods sold across the world are produced in a slum area of Bangladesh's capital where workers, including children, are exposed to hazardous chemicals and often injured in horrific accidents, according to a study. Andrew Biraj/Reuters
Charlie Kline works on a machine affixed with a 'Made in the USA' plate at the FesslerUSA apparel manufacture in Orwigsburg, Pa. on October 15, 2012. Matt Rourke/AP
North Korean workers work at a factory of South Korean apparel maker Shinwon company in the inter-Korean industrial park in Kaesong, north of the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone that divides the Korean peninsula in this May 26, 2005 file photo. Lee Jae-won/Reuters
A Sri Lankan apparel worker looks on as he works in a garment factory in Maharagama, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, September 23, 2009. The pillars of Sri Lanka's $40 billion economy, garments, remittances from the Middle East, and tourism, have all been hit by the global downturn. Eranga Jayawardena/AP
Vietnamese women work at a garment factory outside Hanoi, December 2, 2004. Vietnam shipped nearly $4 billion worth of garments and textiles in the first 10 months of this year, mostly to the US. Kham/Reuters
Women work at the W & D Cambodia Co. Limited garment factory in Phnom Penh on July 12, 2010. Chor Sokunthea/Reuters
After the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, food and clothing labels have become a point of debate. A look at the faraway lives where opportunity and exploitation blur.
Your morning coffee is a miracle of globalization. Someone somewhere in the world had the faith to plant a seedling that years later would produce small cherries harvested by nimble fingers. And then the coffee bean would be transported down bumpy roads cut into active volcanoes, and across oceans. It would be processed and roasted, and ultimately it would find its way to you.
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