The Rana Group: How a Factory Built Bangladesh's Economy

While we often remember the liberation war through battles and politics, Bangladesh’s modern economic identity was forged in the quiet hum of garment factories. This episode explores how the Rana family transformed a small textile workshop into the Rana Plaza empire, and how global fast fashion brands quietly relied on their labor for decades. We look at the history of the ready-made garment industry in Dhaka, the regulatory failures that allowed unsafe conditions to persist, and the human cost behind the clothes we wear today. From the early days of micro-enterprises in the 1980s to the catastrophic collapse in 2013, this is the story of how Bangladesh became the world’s second-largest apparel exporter, and the systemic issues that make worker safety such a persistent challenge in South Asia’s industrial boom.

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