The phrase
"garment industry" refers to the business or industry that involves designing, manufacturing, and selling clothing and other wearable items.
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(Racked) «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 and unsafe environments.»
Incorporating their own hand woven fabrics into the comfortable, roomy, neutrally coloured collections, Study NY also uses dead - stock and recycled fabrics from the
local garment industry when they are available, as well as sustainable textiles, trims and yarns including organic cotton, tencel, hemp, silk, tagua nut and coconut buttons.
On May 13th
various garment industry activist organizations announced that a deal had been reached between several, mostly European brands and a number of Bangladeshi and international unions including IndustriALL.
Haiti's
fledgling garment industry, with some 31,000 workers, has been the subject of criticism by Nova's group — unfairly, its representatives contend.
Yves Savain, executive director of a
Haitian garment industry group, estimates the small Caribbean nation needs $ 100 million to upgrade its existing clothing factories and build new ones.
If the oddly structured American trade action seems counterproductive to the stated goal of changing the behavior of the
Bangladesh garment industry and the brands that source from it, few seem concerned.
In 2004, Oxfam auditors found several human rights violations in the
Chinese garment industry — from rampant child labour, unhealthy and unsanitary working conditions, not enough washrooms, not enough breaks, and inadequate wages and benefits.
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Councilman Corey Johnson and the city's Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen have formed a «
Garment Industry Steering Committee» that will devise a plan to «ensure sufficient long - term space» for manufacturers, the three said in a release.
Such were the circumstances in New York's
burgeoning garment industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, where thousands of unskilled women immigrants toiled in stifling sweatshops for meager pay clocking twelve - hour shifts under unsafe and unsanitary working conditions.
Outsourcing production overseas, where labor is by and large cheaper, not only contributes to our country's unemployment rate and
shrinking garment industry, but also helps keep overseas sweatshops and factories with unfair working conditions in business.
Cline covers a lot of ground in her book — the downfall of the
American garment industry, the environmental impact of gross excess, the loss of sewing as a skill — and sometimes Overdressed feels, well, overwhelming.
Alliance International is one of the
leading Garments Industry Jobs Recruiters India which is constantly striving to create a successful link between the able candidates and the garment manufacturing companies.
In 2010, in cooperation with Mr. Nagarajan, manager, and Mr. Bunkar, pattern master, Shari established Mehera Shaw Foundation, a non-profit in Rajasthan for the purpose of improving sustainability factors within the
local garment industry.
Though the technology has long been used by
the garment industry to burn visual effects into clothing, its use has been limited in scope and consistently augmented by manual processes.
But if there's a pin Levi Strauss wears most proudly, it's probably the one for its standard - setting role in
the garment industry.
This approach broadly mirrors what the rest of
the garment industry is doing.
But it also has policies directly addressing issues common to
the garment industry, such as prohibitions on forced and child labour.
Other strong L.A. industries to build a business in or around include the textiles and
garments industry, the fashion industry, the auto industry (Honda's North American headquarters are located in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance), the defense industry, and the advertising industry.
Unique trade preferences granted by the U.S. under the HOPE Act has Haitian entrepreneurs dreaming of growing
a garment industry with 1 million workers in a country with a population of 10 million.
«Global supply chains are a huge turnaround opportunity,» said Niedermaier, describing
the garment industry as engaged in a «race to the bottom» as it cuts corners to keep costs down.
Bangladesh employs about 3.6 million people in
the garment industry and is the world's second - largest apparel exporter.
But in pioneering and perfecting the global hunt for ways to produce clothing more quickly and cheaply, Li & Fung, which had $ 20 billion in revenue last year, has been described by critics as
the garment industry's «sweatshop locator.»
The third piece of advice came from an older gentleman I met in
the garment industry, named Hal, after FUBU had landed a large partnership.
After visiting China and seeing the reality of what
the garment industry has become, she became determined to create an eco-friendly brand.
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.
The disaster led to widespread calls for reform of
the garment industry.
This was the plea Iliopoulos made on May 28 when he appeared before the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development to discuss corporate governance and
the garment industry.
Gunaratna said competition from Asia in
the garment industry has resulted in the almost complete collapse of the Canadian garment industry.
Even now, many of the Canadian suppliers in
the garment industry are going belly - up.
For four decades,
the garment industry has powered Bangladesh's economy and put more people to work than any other sector.
While we have many laws protecting our rights as laborers here in the U.S., a vast majority of those working in
the garment industry are not protected by those same rights.
It is estimated that 55 million Indian children are forced to work in
the garment industry under similar conditions.
As part of a new initiative to create clothes that are more environmentally and economically sustainable, the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development have teamed with Nike and NASA to ask innovators to help them revolutionize
the garment industry.
These rural workplaces provide a welcome alternative to these women moving to a large city to work in
the garment industry leaving their families behind and making themselves vulnerable to injust and sometimes violent situations.
This drew worldwide attention to the dangerous working conditions of those in
the garment industry and those supplying western brands.
Since this tragic incident, described as the worst in
the garment industry, there have been a number of initiatives, including joint - retailers» agreements — the Accord on Fire and Safety in Bangladesh and the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety.
His public career is founded in two classic city settings: prosecuting Mafia corruption of
the garment industry for the Manhattan D.A.'s office, then, as state attorney general, cleaning up the city's linchpin industry, Wall Street.
Gerson said, in addition to eying the renewal area for cultural uses, he's pitched the area to
the garment industry as a place for fashion manufacturing, design and retail...»
Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration will put a temporary hold on its plan to rezone the Garment District for a second time after a steering committee report recommended phasing in the rezoning to help protect jobs in
the garment industry.
Other businesses in
the garment industry will have no reason to stay in Manhattan if the manufacturers leave, she said.
«There's one recommendation that all of
the garment industry stakeholders and elected officials agree is absolutely essential, this is what it is: We can not get rid of the current zoning protections for the garment district until we are sure enough space is preserved for the manufacturers who need to stay in Manhattan,» Brewer said.
Manhattan Borough President Gail Brewer on Friday lambasted the city's plans to change zoning in the Garment District, saying that relocating manufacturers will likely push
the garment industry out of the city entirely.
The process created in the research program and the resulting textile fiber will open up new markets for the Finnish forest and
garment industries.