garment industry
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Second, make work safer, with governments setting heat standards so vulnerable workers — in the garment industry, for example — aren't risking their lives.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
He grew up in a middle-class Jewish home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to immigrant parents who worked in the garment industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
Even before the events of the past few months, Bangladesh’s garment industry – and its economy – were not in good health.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2024
About a dozen mostly immigrant businesses owners operated shops on the property off of Lawrence Street, making their livelihood storing and selling pallets, recycling, fixing cars and supplying fixtures to the nearby garment industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
His father, Isadore, was a union organizer in the garment industry who later went to work sewing shoulder pads for ladies’ dresses.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
