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
Up until the 1990s, the readymade garment industry outsourced many tasks to home workers.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 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
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
