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