Question
Hanes and Fruit of the Loom contractors for this country’s “assembly zones” reduced a 2009 increase in its minimum wage, the lowest in the Americas. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this country whose export processing zones in the capital’s flood-prone Cité Soleil (“see-TAY soh-LAY”) shantytown doubled their wages under Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
ANSWER: Haiti [or Republic of Haiti or République d’Haïti or Repiblik d Ayiti]
[10h] This 2006 book notes the 90-hour workweeks of Haiti’s domestic restavek children. This Mike Davis book analyzes deindustrialized “pirate urbanization” in peripheral settlements like chawls, colonias, and barriadas.
ANSWER: Planet of Slums [or Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Working Class]
[10m] Planet of Slums describes the land speculation fueling the growth of this megacity, the world’s poorest and densest. Over 200 garment brands signed a safety accord after an industrial disaster near this city in 2013.
ANSWER: Dhaka [or Ḍhākā or Dacca; accept Savar Upazila or Dhaka District or Ḍhākā jēlā] (The disaster was the Rana Plaza collapse.)
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| Arizona State | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Virginia | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Brown | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Waterloo | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell A | Chicago D | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU | Duke | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Kentucky | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | North Carolina B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Claremont Colleges | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Ottawa | McGill | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |