ABSTRACT
The chapter provides demise and expulsion, sweatshops and distressed ecologies, to say something about the harms, repressions, and tragedies that lurk in the recesses of corporate networks. It uncovers parts and existences that corporate costings repeatedly leave out, and that form into deposits and accumulations of neglect under the surfaces of law. The chapter explains the length of time that some existences spend in a state of disregard; governance is struggling to look after existences at the far-flung reaches of corporate networks and assemblages, it claims. But time also marks out the chapter's journey towards new methods for reaching under law's sub-surfaces. The tragedy occurred in April 2013, but was far from an isolated incident. A decade-long pattern of comparable health and safety disasters precede the tragedy in Bangladesh. A 'flattened out' map of the industry tries to put a number on the employees and families living – or submerged – in these situations.
