garment industry

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After a successful career in the garment industry, he waded into the media business following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 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

For Sri Lanka, exports to the US helped the garment industry – which directly employs some 350,000 people – earn $1.9bn last year, making it the country's third-largest foreign exchange earner.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025

In the mid-1960s they moved to Los Angeles, where Socorro succeeded as an Avon saleswoman as well as a sample maker in the garment industry.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2025

The most important consequence of the miracle of the garment industry, though, was what happened to the children growing up in those homes where meaningful work was practiced.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell