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
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 children crawl over bags bulging with clothing offcuts - more fuel for the kiln from Cambodia's $6bn garment industry.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 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
