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Quiet crisis of labour
Workers without safety gears carry bricks on shoulders at a brick kiln at Amin Bazar in Dhaka. — New Age/ Sony Ramany by Rumana Huque EVERY year, as the first of May arrives with the red of workers’ flags and the sound of marches, Bangladesh pauses to honour its labour force. It is through the hands of its workers that the country has stitched its place on the global economic map. According to the 2024 Labour Force Survey by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, the labour for
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