On Monday, the government agreed to allow garment workers to form trade unions without permission from factory owners.
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
Bangladesh, where four million people are employed in the garment industry, has benefited too.
These were clothes as sculpture or sculpture as garment, either way they were a success.
On Monday the government announced a panel that would inspect garment factories for building flaws.
Ms. Huq is managing director of the Mohammadi Group, a garment manufacturer and exporter in Bangladesh.
Cintas has lost replacement charges if a customer loses or damages a towel or garment.
Bangladesh last increased its minimum garment-worker wage in late 2010, almost doubling the lowest pay.
The owner and eight other people, including the owners of the garment factories, have been detained.
Hasina's government has come under criticism for its lax oversight over the powerful garment industry.
More than 80 were killed in accidents in garment factories in the preceding year.
The recent spate of garment-factory disasters in Bangladesh spotlights the poor working conditions in that country.
For years, Kowloon was where you stayed if you were doing business in the garment trade.
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"We are connecting consumers with the garment workers on a personal level, " he says.
The garment takes them on a journey, and so my journey with the garment has finished.
But the garment whose fate makes Indians clutch their brocade scarfs in terror is the kimono.
Even if the garment worker cannot afford, the middle management people will be able to.
Deconstructing a garment, cutting it down to size and reconstructing it again sounded good once.
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Bangladesh's garment industry was the third-largest in the world in 2011, after China and Italy.
The board of Gokaldas Exports, the garment-maker, includes three brothers and three of their sons.
The country has about 4, 000 garment factories and exports clothes to leading Western retailers.
As of July 1, the U.S. determines origin from where a garment is assembled.
No longer is a garment's country of origin defined as where the cloth was cut.
After 2005, garment quotas will be abolished, making imports into the region cost less.
"We are badly hit, " says Rubana Huq, managing director of garment exporter Mohammadi Group.
Lesotho, for example, relies almost exclusively on garment manufacturing for mass employment and income generation.
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More than 300 garment factories were shut down for a few days following the unrest.
Even though I'm bored silly, I'm still better off than your typical laid-off garment worker.
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Yet increasingly, normal-sized garment bags are being deemed "oversized" and thus must be checked.
In practice, they provide cheap labour (mainly from Asia) for the garment industry, farming and fish-processing.
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