Recent headlines have provided stark reminders that cheap manufactured goods from overseas often come at the expense of human lives.

On April 24, an eight-story building in Savar, Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,127 people and injuring hundreds more. The building housed five factories producing garments for Western retailers. Five months before the Savar tragedy, a fire at another Bangladeshi garment factory killed 112 people, and just two weeks after the Savar incident, a fire at yet another Bangladeshi garment factory killed eight more.