But in developing countries ... Bangladesh, which is famous for the garment industry — and the garment industry has always been thought of as the industry that always will require human hands — garment industry owners are buying these things called sewbots, S-E-W-B-O-T-S.
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The garment industry is primed for that kind of shift in human labor, said Carnegie Mellon's Bourne, who has been working on both the engineering and economic aspect of automating the garment industry.
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Robots are taking over the garment industry in southeast Asia.
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As the garment industry moved offshore, the Japanese zips followed.
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Cambodia's garment industry is the largest employer in the country.
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Didn't the garment industry also function as a creative resource?
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It was the deadliest garment industry accident in modern history.
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But now the troubled garment industry is getting a lifeline.
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You married, had a son, divorced and worked in the garment industry.
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Her father, a furrier, had met his father through the garment industry.
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There is also a burgeoning garment industry in Ethiopia, but its relatively new status as a garment industry hub – as well as the media's overwhelming focus on south Asian countries – means that it has largely escaped international scrutiny.
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"Industrial relations are still only a few years old in the Myanmar garment industry, and effective cooperative structures are still being developed," said Jacob Clere, who works on a European Union-funded project to improve Myanmar's garment industry.
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The government was taken unawares by the rapid growth of the garment industry.
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His father worked in the garment industry, and his mother was a homemaker.
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Much of this is down to the booming garment industry, which employs mostly women.
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When you're concerned about exploitation in the garment industry, you buy ethically produced clothes.
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His father was a taxi driver, and his mother worked in the garment industry.
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"His passion was the garment industry, and he loved New York," Andrew Tolk said.
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Five years later, the garment industry looks set to return to business as usual.
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Revelations of egregious failures within the garment industry still emerge on a regular basis.
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His mother took jobs in the garment industry and later in a candy shop.
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A fall in foreign investment may exacerbate the challenges in Bangladesh's garment industry, analysts said.
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There he wrote Patterns, a column about the Seventh Avenue garment industry, until July 1992.
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The $28 billion garment industry is key, accounting for around 15 percent of the economy.
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And some are turning to Los Angeles' garment industry located downtown to manufacture face masks.
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Sri Lanka's garment industry estimates the trade concession helped it save $500 million each year.
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Her father was a shoelace manufacturer, her mother a dress buyer in the garment industry.
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Her mother was a real-estate broker, and her father worked in the garment industry.
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"The most exploitative hostels are those run by the textile and garment industry," Samy said.
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The more you know about the $275 trillion garment industry, the harder it is to shop.
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The groom's mother was a seamstress for a garment-industry company that was in Manhattan's Chinatown.
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The fast-growing garment industry, which supplies around 11% of GDP, employs lots of internal migrants.
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Giang said more than 50% of materials for the country's garment industry are shipped from China.
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TODAY, DUE IN PART to the garment industry, Bangladesh is less equitable than it has ever been.
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The garment industry is mainly made up of undocumented laborers and is notorious for poor working conditions.
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The mood is "very optimistic", says Ilkhom Khaydarov, the head of the Textile and Garment Industry Association.
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After Levi Strauss closed its last U.S. plants in 22008, Ortiz took another job in the garment industry.
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Nazma Akter was 11 years old when she first started working in the garment industry alongside her mother.
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Georgia once made drab clothes for the victims of communism; its garment industry collapsed with the Soviet Union.
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In the Rana Plaza disaster, 1,135 mainly garment industry workers were killed when a building collapsed outside Dhaka.
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The economy slowed affecting those in other industries as well, except the garment industry, which is still booming.
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Similar trade preferences in the United States have helped Cambodia build a garment industry on low-cost labor.
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After Rana Plaza, a common standard was reached on structural fire and electrical safety in the garment industry.
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She started her own travel agency in the late 1960s after my grandfather retired from the garment industry.
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The LA garment industry is notorious for poor labor conditions and its reliance on a largely undocumented workforce.
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The roughly $28-billion garment industry employs 4 million people and generates about 80 percent of Bangladesh's export earnings.
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Donald's mother did some work in the garment industry, then went back to school to become a medical assistant.
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The garment industry is a key revenue stream for the developing nation and reportedly accounts for 80% of exports.
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His father, Charles, was a garment industry union leader and co-chairman of the Socialist Party-Democratic Socialist Federation.
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Ms. Edwards makes a point to support small farms abroad as well as the New York City garment industry.
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Tourism, transit and other related industries may experience deeper impacts, such as Bangladesh's garment industry or Turkey's tourism sector.
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"East Africa has a lot of potential to develop a strong textile and garment industry," says Rien Jansen of Bonprix.
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The fifth anniversary of Rana Plaza calls for a renewed and collective commitment to a safe and secure garment industry.
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Regina and Kalman worked in the garment industry and ultimately became small business owners running their own retail clothing store.
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Local furriers should "diversify" and embrace innovations in the fashion and garment industry that can take the place of fur.
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Vietnam's huge garment industry, for example, relies greatly on fabric and accessories imported from China, according to garment manufacturing executives.
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"We've seen an increase in transparency go through the garment industry, the palm oil industry, electricity, milk, vegetables," said Gooch.
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"They said part of why they were thinking about it [a minimum wage] is because of the garment industry," he said.
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Its once-booming garment industry is in shambles as clothing brands left the country when factory fires highlighted unsafe working conditions.
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The Clean Clothes Campaign is a network of trade unions and NGOs looking to improve working conditions in the garment industry.
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Our tee is domestically produced in Los Angeles, CA, where our vendor has been in the garment industry for 210 years.
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Cambodia's $7 billion garment industry is at a crossroads, with its biggest export markets reacting to a recent erosion of democracy.
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Bangladesh relies heavily on its garment industry; recent reports show that it accounts for around 70% of the country's visible exports.
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The fashion enthusiast envisions a garment industry that depends just as much on new technologies as it does on traditional methods.
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Attributing the attacks to ISIS, moreover, threatened the country's all-important garment industry, which depends on annual visits from Western buyers.
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Minister Khan said he did not believe the attack would have any impact on the garment industry or the country's economy.
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His father, Philip, worked in the garment industry; his mother, the former Shirley Bisnoff, was a homemaker and a jazz pianist.
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That was when the deadliest garment industry disaster in history, the Rana Plaza factory collapse, killed more than 1,100 Bangladeshi workers.
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Most of the Jews who came before World War II found themselves in working-class jobs, especially in the garment industry.
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The garment industry, like all truly global industries, is tangled up in complex debates about human rights violations, immigration, and corporate regulation.
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Many work illegally in Turkey's garment industry, which supplies $17 billion in clothing and shoes a year, mostly to Europe, especially Germany.
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The thing about these studies is there really isn't publicly accessible, third-party research like there is for the general garment industry.
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But some think that Bangladesh's garment industry now faces a new problem almost as grave as the traffic: the threat of automation.
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Wages in India's textile and garment industry are about $1.06 an hour, compared with $2.60 in China, according to the World Bank.
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Maxey eventually dropped Meld, but it served as an example of her ideas on how to make the garment industry more efficient.
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They were all connected by the fabric of the Lower East Side: Each family had one parent working in the garment industry.
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LaborVoices is also tracking abuse of Syrian migrant workers in Turkey's garment industry, seeking evidence of forced labor and trafficking, Khanna said.
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The garment industry could be faced with a big labor problem in communities where millions of people could be left without work.
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On Black Friday, textile artist and activist Carole Frances Lung will examine unseen networks of labor and capital in the garment industry.
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The bride, who is 29 and taking her husband's name, works in the garment industry in New York as a sales executive.
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To survive, some have begun offloading their girls to work as maids for middle-class Bangladeshis, or in the local garment industry.
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We have work to do to develop better fibers, cleaner dye practices, and to improve conditions for garment industry workers around the world.
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Bangladesh's roughly $28-billion garment industry, the world's biggest after China, employs 4 million people and generates about 80 percent of export earnings.
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After visiting China and seeing the reality of what the garment industry has become, she became determined to create an eco-friendly brand.
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Experts say Bangladesh's record on workers' rights has improved since the Rana Plaza disaster, which put its garment industry under the global spotlight.
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Seven Italians were in the cafe when the attack started, including several working in Bangladesh in the garment industry, Italian media have reported.
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The garment industry is the largest employer in Cambodia, and garment exports account for around 40 percent of the Southeast Asian country's economy.
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Like many young female immigrants, she was forced to provide for herself, finding work as a cloakmaker in the notoriously exploitative garment industry.
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Low wages have helped Bangladesh build the worlds second-largest garment industry, behind China, with some 4,000 factories employing about 4 million workers.
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In the olden days, immigrants, for example, who worked in the needle trade, who worked in the garment industry, they worked much harder.
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As a fashion journalist, she was confronted with the truth of the garment industry and she felt she could no longer ignore it.
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The name dates to 1915, when William Fox, a Hungarian immigrant, left the fur and garment industry to start a motion picture company.
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Vietnam's garment industry and Malaysian electronics, in particular, were seen strengthening from the removal of tariffs in the U.S. and other major importers.
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Working in India's $40 billion-a-year textile and garment industry for the last four years, she earns 270 Indian rupees($4.24) a day.
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"It underscores growing international concern over the deterioration of labour rights in the Bangladesh garment industry," the Netherlands-based group said in a statement.
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The EVFTA presents another challenge for Vietnam's garment industry: Strict rules on the country of origin for materials - or the "double transformation" of goods.
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The garment industry is witnessing a collapse in demand due to the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, putting jobs across Asia at risk.
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The first act takes place in 1893 and is set in the garment industry; the second comes 100 years later, during the AIDS crisis.
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Fraudulent labeling helps support its garment industry, which generated more than $0003 million for the isolated nation last year, according to Chinese trade data.
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Cambodia's garment industry has been overhauled in recent years - with the monthly minimum wage set to rise to $182 next year from $61 in 2012.
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Mexico is the largest supplier of men's and boy's jeans to America and seventh biggest supplier of footwear, according to a garment industry trade group.
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During two events held a few days later, Xiong hailed Cambodia's "excellent" diplomacy and criticized proposed European Union sanctions on Cambodia's important garment industry sector.
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Bangladesh's $26 billion garment industry fears the attack could force major retailers from Uniqlo to Marks and Spencer and Gap to rethink their sourcing plans.
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Determined to learn the nitty-gritty of the garment industry, Mr. Livingston started hanging out at the Watman Headwear Corporation on the Ridgewood/Bushwick border.
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Saipan's government, desperate for revenues after the collapse of its garment industry and a decline in tourism, approved the casino in 2014, overturning longstanding opposition.
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Like many generations of New Yorkers in the garment industry, Ms. Aviles came to the United States as an immigrant — in her case, from Colombia.
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The garment industry itself was built by immigrants, Ms. Mallis noted of a business that continues to be one of the city's top economic drivers.
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A 2015 survey of its garment industry found that most of the factories that were inspected suppressed independent unions and failed health and safety checks.
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The use of subcontractors by fashion companies is not unusual in Brazil, which boasts the fourth-largest garment industry in the world in number of employees.
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Between 1981 and 2000 second-hand imports explain two-fifths of the decline in African apparel production and half of the fall in garment-industry employment.
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The garment industry is pressing the government to increase the additional incentive to 3% from the proposed 1% before the budget goes to parliament for approval.
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IndustriALL says it represents 211 million workers in 2309 countries worldwide and has previously worked to highlight safety and pay issues in Southeast Asia's garment industry.
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Ms. Schwartz said her husband had been part of a generation of businessmen whose success with their public companies gave more respectability to the garment industry.
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Back in Phnom Penh, Perk Chrep, a 30-year-old worker in Cambodia's important garment industry, fretted that she had little choice in the electoral exercise.
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Theirs is still the only residential building on the block, which otherwise is filled with remnants of the garment industry that once thrived in the area.
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The $40 billion Indian textile and garment industry, much of which operates in the informal sector and is poorly regulated, employs an estimated 45 million workers.
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Dr Ruwanpura is an expert on the Sri Lankan garment industry, and has visited MAS factories in Sri Lanka, though her visit took place several years ago.
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The garment industry accounts for more than 80 percent of the South Asian nation's export earnings and provides a crucial source of income to women in particular.
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The country's garment industry, the world's second biggest producer, currently receives a 5 percent cash incentive for exports but that is due to end on June 30.
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With help from his father's tailoring shop and government scholarships, Yedla attended the National Institution of Fashion Technology and started working in the garment industry soon after.
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Bangladesh, which ranks behind only China as a supplier of clothes to Western countries, relies on the garment industry for more than 80 percent of its exports.
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Khen Srey Touch is among thousands of workers in the garment industry who are being courted by Prime Minister Hun Sen ahead of the July 29 election.
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Tariff-free access to Europe for Cambodian garments - and similar trade preferences in the United States - have helped Cambodia build a garment industry on low-cost labor.
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Mr. Riddick receives $1,338 a month in Social Security after deductions from Medicare and a monthly pension of $130 from his decades working in the garment industry.
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The Bangladesh garment industry is the second largest export earning country after China and the sector represents about 16% of the economy and employs over 4 million workers.
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Some foreign companies working in Bangladesh's garment industry have suspended travel to the country after an attack by Islamist militants on a restaurant in Dhaka on July 1.
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Mr. Chalian's mother retired as a teacher at Frank J. Dugan Elementary School in Marlboro, N.J. His father was a salesman in the garment industry in New York.
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One man told me he liked the low prices, even as he complained about the goods' poor quality — and the harm they did to the local garment industry.
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Seven Italians were in the cafe when the attack started, including several working in the garment industry, Italian media have reported, while seven Japanese citizens were unaccounted for.
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In July 2011, Greenpeace launched a campaign called Detox My Fashion, which specifically looks at the hazardous chemicals created by the garment industry that pollute the global water supply.
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Child labor, pitiful pay and dangerous conditions are among the risks facing undocumented Syrian refugees working in Turkey's garment industry, according to the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.
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But as the garment industry returns to business as usual, critics say that the jailing of labor leaders and the expiration of safeguards show that little has been learned.
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Low wages, discrimination and poor conditions are common for Syrian refugees working in Turkey's multi-billion dollar garment industry, where child labour is also a problem, said the BHRRC.
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The fear generated by the slaughter hangs over the country today, particularly in the struggle to introduce a measure of justice and equity in the vastly exploitative garment industry.
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Low wages, discrimination and poor conditions are common for Syrian refugees working in Turkey's multi-billion dollar garment industry, where child labor is also a problem, said the BHRRC.
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About 650,000 are estimated to be working in Turkey, many in the garment industry, yet most lack work permits, leaving them at greater risk of abuse, the BHRRC said.
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His father, Bernard, a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine, worked in the garment industry on the Lower East Side while studying at night at Columbia University to be a pharmacist.
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The fashion industry in sub-Saharan Africa is also dominated by women, whose small businesses connect a vibrant cotton-textile-garment industry that produces a whopping $31 billion annually.
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The dispute is the latest in a series of rows between workers and management in India's multi-billion dollar textile and garment industry that employs about 45 million workers.
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The European Union threatened to exclude Cambodia from a program that gives impoverished countries tariff-free access to its markets, which has been highly beneficial to Cambodia's garment industry.
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Less than a year after that, an even deadlier disaster struck the garment industry, when an eight-story building in a Dhaka suburb collapsed, killing more than 1,100 people.
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The milliners were the elite workers in the garment industry, and their jobs ranged from running errands to forming the hats to covering them with material to adding trimmings.
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"We are already starting to see big orders, big export orders flowing, out of nowhere, into the seafood, and the furniture and the garment industry," Stoops told CNBC's Street Signs.
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It really took off as a domestic fabric in 1916 when a Kansas City designer named Nelly Don, "the grand lady of the garment industry," created a pink gingham housedress.
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Scott Nova, an executive director of Worker Rights Consortium, an independent labor rights group that investigates the garment industry, says there is one reason clothes are made overseas: cheap labor.
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The Accord, established after the Rana Plaza disaster, has nearly 200 signatory clothing brands and retailers from over 20 countries, covering 2.5 million workers in Bangladesh's ready-made garment industry.
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Working conditions and wages in South Asia's garment industry have come under greater scrutiny since the April 2013 Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,100 workers died.
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The European Union has raised the possibility of withdrawing trade preferences which are vital for the garment industry that accounted for well over 60 percent of Cambodia's exports last year.
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The garment industry generates about $30 billion of exports a year, accounting for 80 percent of Bangladesh's merchandise export earnings and serving some of the biggest brands in the world.
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Working conditions in Sri Lanka's garment industry, which is largely organized, are "generally better" than in the rest of South Asia, the World Bank said in a report last month.
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"One of my friends called it 'Black Friday', which I think was pretty accurate," said an American in the garment industry, who has been living in Bangladesh for seven years.
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The attack could be a huge blow for Bangladesh's $26 billion garment industry, as fears mount that major retailers from Marks and Spencer to Gap Inc could rethink their investments.
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Uzbekistan, already the world's seventh-biggest producer of cotton, wants to become a force in the garment industry, too, on a par with the likes of Bangladesh, China and Vietnam.
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Susan had a job to return to in the Los Angeles garment industry — and anyway, "I had no intention of staying on the ship any longer than six months," she says.
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There's a musical called Rags about Jewish immigrants to New York City's Lower East Side in the early nineteenth century in which one of the characters works in the garment industry.
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Established in 29 as Bangladesh's first bank run on Islamic principles, Islami thrived by handling a large share of remittances from emigrant workers and by lending to the booming garment industry.
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Now she is among tens of thousands of workers in India's $220 billion-a-year textile and garment industry who are seeking higher wages from the factories that supply global brands.
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Over the same period, annual sales of its economic mainstay, the garment industry, nearly tripled, with garment exports worth $30.6 billion in 2017/18, making up 83.5 percent of total exports.
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Though Mr Ortega still denounces American imperialism rhetorically, Nicaragua remains in the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States, which has allowed it to create a large garment industry.
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"The ready-made garment industry is an important part of the Bangladesh economy and a major catalyst for the development of that country," an unnamed Loblaws spokesperson said in an email.
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The World Bank has spoken out about allegations of corruption involving infrastructure projects in Bangladesh, and the International Labor Organization has raised concerns about working conditions in the country's garment industry.
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"At this moment, the Accord is the only organization that is meaningfully and transparently making factories safer," said Christie Miedema, a spokeswoman for the alliance of garment industry unions and advocacy organizations.
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"The mapping project will fuel Bangladesh's garment industry advancements, inspire shared responsibility, responsible sourcing, collective action and build upon pre-existing improvement efforts through informed decision-making," Huda said in a statement.
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This week was the fifth anniversary of the deadliest garment industry accident in modern history: More than 254,21989 people were killed in a horrific building collapse and more than 2,500 were injured.
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Of course, Trump is not a fascist, but there are similarities worth noting in regards to the way his economic and cultural perspectives and policies endanger the US's $343 billion garment industry.
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The European Union, long disgusted with Mr Hun Sen's repression, is considering whether or not to impose tariffs on Cambodian exports, threatening the country's successful garment industry and its 700,000-odd workers.
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As one of the best-paid and most regulated sectors in the country, Cambodia's garment industry is often held up as a model of progressive labour reform (for example, by the UN).
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But Mr. Macklowe, the son of a garment industry executive who broke into the real estate business as a commercial broker, is more concerned about the here and now than the hereafter.
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The investigation published in June revealed that women workers in Tamil Nadu's multi-billion dollar garment industry were given unlabelled drugs at work for period pains to ensure they met their production targets.
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It is also the worst industrial accident in Bangladesh since the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza building outside Dhaka that killed over 1,100 workers, who were mainly employed in the garment industry.
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Between the 1880s and 19743s, immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe constituted the unskilled labor that fueled most of the major areas of economic growth, from the automobile industry to the garment industry.
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Thanks largely to remittances and the garment industry, annual GDP growth in Bangladesh has been above 5% for each of the past 15 years—a record better than those of India or Pakistan.
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Mr. Tolk, his son said, was born in Brooklyn and worked in the garment industry for years before it collapsed, inspecting women's sweaters before they were shipped to retailers like Walmart and Target.
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Joe Fresh wasn't alone — countless fast-fashion brands worldwide were making their clothes in similar conditions, and with its rapid manufacturing growth and poor construction standards, the Bangladesh garment industry was ground zero.
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Once a bustling city with 282,21.7 manufacturing jobs — and nicknamed the jeans capital of the world for its thriving garment industry — El Paso was hit hard by the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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In the financially struggling garment industry, abuses are pervasive enough that the minister of economy, trade and industry promised an inquiry last year, during a debate in Parliament over expanding the trainee program.
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"It's a tipping point for the country and the garment industry," said Sarah Labowitz, co-director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at the NYU Stern School of Business in New York.
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Italian media said several of the Italians victims worked in the garment industry and the attack will frighten expatriates working in Bangladesh's $26 billion garment sector that accounts for 80 percent of its exports.
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Sri Lanka's garment industry is its second-biggest hard currency earner, after remittances, worth about $5 billion a year, with goods supplied to top brands including Victoria's Secret, Tommy Hilfiger, Nike and Marks & Spencer.
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Although Jain did not set out to make a political film, his award-winning feature "Machines" is attracting international attention for its depiction of the squalor and human suffering underpinning the global garment industry.
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It's the story of my own mother, who left all that was familiar to work as a seamstress in the garment industry in Los Angeles in order to build more opportunities for her children.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women facing sexual harassment in India's garment industry have no place to turn as textile companies are shirking their legal duty to investigate abuse allegations, activists said on Thursday.
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Her adviser H.T. Imam said the government would consider raising the minimum wage for workers in its garment industry, which generates about 83 percent of exports and is the world's second-largest only after China's.
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She is among a number of trendsetters embracing cutting-edge technology that offers the opportunity to sate appetites for fast fashion while dramatically slashing the emissions, pollution and labor abuses linked to the garment industry.
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"Potential negative effects on the employment for the people in the garment industry must be taken into consideration," it said in a statement to Reuters, without saying if it planned to pull out of Cambodia.
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Cambodia's garment industry is run off the back of short-term contracts, typically three to five months' long, which allows employers to cast off pregnant workers before they have accrued maternity leave or pregnancy entitlement.
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Major buyers like H&M, Adidas and Zara have managed to influence government policy in Cambodia in the past, including to secure a higher minimum wage and various protections for workers in the garment industry.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Often afraid to speak up about abuses that plague south India's textile and garment industry, workers will now have anonymous access to legal aid through a newly-launched toll-free number.
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The name of his film, "Dollar City", refers to the southern Indian city, which is home to an expanding garment industry, one of the pillars of India's economy - and the foreign exchange it generates through exports.
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Checks for basic facilities such as toilets and creches for the more than 500,000 mostly female workers in Tamil Nadu, the largest hub in India's $40 billion-a-year textile and garment industry, began in March.
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The ruling is significant because it could force hundreds of others to follow suit, ending what labor rights campaigners have condemned as the historic abuse of short-term contracts in the country's $603 billion garment industry.
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The killing of foreigners will likely shatter the confidence of the expatriate community in Bangladesh, many of whom work for multinationals in the country's $26 billion garment industry that accounts for around 15 percent of the economy.
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And if you look at what's happened on Seventh Avenue, and you look at what's happened in New York with the garment industry, so much of the clothing now comes out from Vietnam, China, and other places.
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"Opera Girl" (1941, oil on canvas), by the New York garment-industry worker Morris Hirshfield, aspires to some kind of elegant chic, despite the amusingly impossible proportions of its subject's stylized hands, which clasp a luxurious red cape.
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Tamil Nadu is the largest hub in India's $40 billion-a-year textile and garment industry with about 400,000 people working in spinning mills and garment factories there to produce garments exported to Europe and the United States.
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With a booming garment industry that now ranks second only to China's in exports, plus some 10m diligent overseas workers sending money home, Bangladesh has enjoyed current-account surpluses for all but one of the past ten years.
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He explained that Chinatown, is "under attack … guided by aggressive corporate strategy with real estate development whenever possible," particularly since September 11 and with the gradual disappearance of the garment industry, a key economic engine for the neighborhood.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Textile workers from Bangladesh to Turkey are using cellphones to report child labor, delayed wages and trafficking - a trend rights groups say shows the promise of technology in tackling abuses in the garment industry.
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This campaign is part of the company's ongoing project to uplift women in the garment industry in countries like Bangladesh and Indonesia, where Uniqlo's production takes place and where many women in factories there lack basic educational opportunities.
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It also includes a large part of the area called the garment district, even though only 5 percent of its work force is garment industry-related, according to Barbara A. Blair, the president of the Garment District Alliance.
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But while revelations about the abuse of women in the West have delivered a moment of reckoning for some abusers, the outcry over the conditions faced by poor women working in the garment industry has been markedly more muted.
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The managers of one factory, Needle Craft, say they would be happy to employ Syrian refugees, noting that many come from a part of Syria near Aleppo that used to have a garment industry based on home-grown cotton.
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Elin Astrom, head of H&M's Sustainability Program in India, said the clothing firm was aware of the exploitation of workers in the garment industry and was working on several initiatives with its main suppliers to improve worker conditions.
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Gradually a sense of guilt and reality crept in, however, along with an awareness of the human rights abuses and poor working conditions endured by workers in the garment industry, along with the damage it's wreaking on our planet.
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About a century ago, there was merely "Women's Day," originating in New York on the final day of February in 1909 — the anniversary of the city's garment industry strike — to honor the women who so bravely protested labor conditions.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A proposed new township for garment industry workers in the southern Indian textile hub of Tiruppur will tackle the problem of exploitation of workers housed in hostels on factory sites, campaigners said on Monday.
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Low wages and poor working conditions have long been a concern in Bangladesh's garment industry, which suffered one of the worst industrial accidents in 2013, when more than 1,000 people were killed in the collapse of the Rana Plaza complex.
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Poor working conditions and low wages have long been a concern in Bangladesh's garment industry, which suffered one of the worst industrial accidents in 22, when more than 1,100 people were killed in the collapse of the Rana Plaza complex.
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A Thomson Reuters Foundation expose based on interviews with about 24 women in Tamil Nadu's multi-billion dollar garment industry found all of them were given unlabelled drugs at work for period pains, and more than half said their health suffered.
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The garment industry had been recovering strongly from a major tragedy four years ago, when a factory building collapsed, killing more than 1,100 people and prompting safety checks that led to factory closures and the loss of exports and jobs.
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Jobs in the garment industry are especially at-risk: 64 percent of Indonesians working in the textile, clothing, or footwear industry are at high risk of losing their jobs to automation, while in Cambodia that number climbs to 88 percent.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bangladesh, the second largest garment producing country in the world, will digitally map its entire garment industry in the first such initiative to bring transparency in the supply chain in an effort to stop abuses.
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Dangerous working conditions and low wages have long been a concern in Bangladesh's garment industry, which suffered one of the worst industrial accidents in 1183, when more than 1,100 people were killed in the collapse of the Rana Plaza complex.
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Bangladesh's economy depends heavily on the fortunes of the $28 billion garment industry, which is struggling to improve a poor safety record epitomized by the Rana Plaza disaster of 2013 in which a factory collapse killed more than 1,100 people.
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They have shocked the largely moderate Muslim country of 160 million people and heightened fears that Bangladesh, once hailed as the next Asian tiger economy with its huge garment industry, could lose out to more stable competitors in the region.
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Some people working in the garment industry say they fear for the future of the $28 billion sector after a group of radicalised young Bangladeshis killed about 20 people, including 18 foreigners, in an attack on an upscale Dhaka restaurant.
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Staff shortages have already started to manifest in Vietnam's garment industry, where the vast majority of manufacturers are focused on the labour-intensive sewing and cutting process which makes the Southeast Asian country a popular outsourcing destination for foreign fashion companies.
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He was an older Jewish guy who had grown up in the garment industry in New York, and I was a middle-class young Black woman for whom being angry in public would be the kiss of death, especially at work.
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Over the ensuing decades, it would transform from a tightknit and largely self-supporting community — home to a robust garment industry and fading bachelor society shaped by earlier immigration policies — into a bustling neighborhood centered on young people and families.
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Known for being the mecca of the garment industry, the second largest importer of clothing to the U.S. and the site of the infamous Rana Plaza Fire of 2013, Bangladesh has long been at the heart of the climate change crisis.
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In March, the USTR warned Rwanda it would lose some benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), America's flagship trade legislation for Africa, in 20163 days after it increased tariffs on second-hand clothes to support its local garment industry.
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The report by the New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights comes as Ethiopia, one of Africa's fastest-growing economies, pursues a bold economic experiment by inviting the global garment industry to set up shop in its mushrooming industrial parks.
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The report highlighted loans to six companies belonging to Nassa Group, a giant of the garment industry, which it says were granted without taking the required collateral and ignoring the fact that there were several Nassa subsidiaries that had defaulted in the past.
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DHAKA/NEW DELHI, Feb 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Five global high street fashion brands have pulled out of a major garment industry event in Bangladesh due to concerns over a crackdown on unions demanding better pay in textile factories, campaigners said on Wednesday.
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"There have always been industries, like the garment industry, where you can work as much or as little as you want," said Louis Hyman, a work historian at Cornell University and the director of the Institute for Workplace Studies in New York City.
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"The garment industry employs between one-sixth and one-seventh of all of the women on Earth, and therefore is probably the single-most responsible entity for the global gender wage gap," writes Moore in Threadbare: Clothes, Sex & Trafficking, published by Microcosm.
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One of the earliest heroes in Greenhouse's book is a Ukrainian immigrant named Clara Lemlich, a dressmaker and a union organizer, who, in 21961, hopped onstage during a rally at Cooper Union to call, in Yiddish, for a strike against New York's garment industry.
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"The documentary has revealed the enormous power wielded by the garment industry, the abominable conditions in which factory workers live and work in Tirupur," Sujatha Mody, president of Garment and Fashion Workers Union, wrote in a blog after watching a screening with workers in Chennai.
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DHAKA/MUMBAI, July 2 (Reuters) - Some leaders of Bangladesh's $26 billion garment industry expect Western fashion retailers to review their ties with the world's second-largest garment exporter after Islamist militants killed more than a dozen foreigners in an attack on a Dhaka restaurant.
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DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Ayesha Akhter walks into the factory where she works, the supervisor greets her with a smile and wishes her a pleasant day - a major change after years of physical and verbal abuse from managers in Bangladesh's $2500 billion garment industry.
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A report on 10 eastern Europe countries and Turkey in 13 by the Clean Clothes Campaign, a group that lobbies to improve conditions for workers in the sector, found poverty-level wages, dangerous working conditions and forced overtime were "endemic throughout the garment industry".
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A European Union decision to ramp up trade pressure on Cambodia has alarmed unions in its garment industry, a pillar of the economy that employs about 700,1823 people, but a key grouping of manufacturers said the risk would take months to materialize.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Through her alter ego Frau Fiber — a former East German garment worker — and her Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers & Uniforms, textile artist and activist Carole Frances Lung examines unseen networks of labor and capital in the garment industry.
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To the Editor: Your article paints a vivid picture of the challenges young Indian women face when they leave their villages to work in the garment industry: harsh and sometimes dangerous working conditions, overcrowded living arrangements and the ever-present danger of sexual exploitation.
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" Whitney Bauck, Associate Editor at Fashionista "I bought some sunglasses from [a fast fashion brand] in Ireland when I was studying there in 2013, and a week later, the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh, which was the worst accident in garment industry history, happened.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two mothers have approached a court in south India seeking help to "free" their daughters from a spinning mill where they work, raising questions on the freedom of movement of thousands of women employed in the Indian textile and garment industry.
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In the wake of an earlier wave of protests about sweatshop conditions in the global garment industry, the major players in the sector convened what was essentially an astroturf array of oversight bodies that nominally certify fair labor practices in factories owned and run by international subcontractors.
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"We always knew someone who was in the garment industry ... so you had a person related to what you were wearing, and you thought about them," Dana Thomas, journalist and author of Fashionopolis: The Prices of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes previously told The Goods.
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In "Fashionopolis," Dana Thomas, a veteran style writer, convincingly connects our fast-fashion wardrobes to global economic and climate patterns and crises, rooting the current state of the fashion biosphere as a whole — production methods, labor practices and environmental impacts — in the history of the garment industry.
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A shroud of thousands of white shirts sewn together hung ominously from the ceiling, referencing both the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 in New York and the Rana Plaza collapses of 2013 in Bangladesh, two historical events that needlessly caused massive death and injury to garment industry workers.
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The women are among tens of thousands of workers in Tamil Nadu state - the largest hub in India's $40 billion-a-year textile and garment industry - who are seeking millions of dollars in compensation following a landmark court ruling last year that declared they had long been grossly underpaid.
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"At a certain point in time you have to wonder just how much the brands and retailers will tolerate," said Scott Nova, the executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, a labor rights group based in Washington that is among the most active nonprofits working in Bangladesh's garment industry.
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Reverse Resources, a group that has created an online marketplace to connect factories and designers who want to reuse their scraps, released a study in 2016 that estimated that the garment industry creates almost enough leftover textile per year to cover the entire republic of Estonia with waste.
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NEW DELHI, Sept 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One of the most effective ways to curb forced labour in the garment industry is to target cotton spinning mills, where workers can provide valuable information about the source of material in the fashion supply chain, an anti-slavery charity said on Friday.
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The wages that the Sun reports are paid to Topshop's Sri Lankan factory workers are well above the minimum wage in South Asia, where minimum salaries in the garment industry range from $68 a month in Bangladesh to $71 in Sri Lanka and $120 in Pakistan, according to the World Bank.
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Last Week Tonight host John Oliver loves to spotlight somewhat obscure but very important policy questions that cable news (especially comedic cable news) typically ignores: things like local government "special districts" that spend $100 billion annually with minimal accountability, or abusive garment industry labor practices, or Puerto Rico's debt crisis.
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As the world's second-largest apparel company — after Inditex, which owns Zara — H&M said it felt a sense of "shared responsibility" when it came to persistently low wages, an issue as endemic to the global garment industry as unrelenting hours, unsafe environments, and rampant verbal, physical, and sexual abuse.
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"And I'm sure there are questions of more immediate interest to mankind that whether I have become a victim of Women's Wear Daily, a tool of the garment industry, and the oldest gypsy maiden in D.C." Now with the new leopard print midi craze, you get to decide which team you are on.
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Sunday Routine Although they met in Chicago a decade ago, Shane Gabier, 43, and Christopher Peters, 33, the designers of the clothing line Creatures of the Wind, are a New York couple these days, living in Lower Manhattan in a prewar building that was, appropriately enough, originally built to provide housing for garment industry workers.
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The writing-directing-producing team of Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino have risen to the challenge, expanding the scope of their show beyond the late 1950s New York comedy scene, taking little side-trips through the Paris art world, the ups and downs of the garment industry, and — for one especially impressive mid-season stretch — the arcane rituals of Catskills summer resorts.
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However, the process of closing a factory, including those with compliance issues, can be a long and costly process for "brand sensitive companies like Nike" to mitigate the disruption to local economies, says Tara Rangarajan, a global operations manager at BetterWork, a partnership between the UN's International Labour Organisation and the World Bank's International Finance Corporation, which focuses on working conditions in the garment industry.
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One of the women I spoke to for the book, Dilys Williams, who is the director of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion at the University of the Arts London, told me that in the old days — and not even in the old days but pre-offshoring — we always knew somebody who was in the garment industry, whether it was your cousin, a neighbor down the street, or someone at your church or at your school, so you had a person related to what you were wearing, and you thought about them.
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