garment industry
Example Sentences
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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
The textile and garment industry is Lesotho's largest private sector employer providing, at its peak, around 50,000 jobs, out of a population of just over two million.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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
My father was drafted into the Navy, and Mama and my sisters all got jobs in the garment industry.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
