Bangladesh, where four million people are employed in the garment industry, has benefited too.
It is time that corrective measures are taken to deal with malpractices that prevail in the garment industry.
His father had been in the garment industry for decades, and the then-40-year-old David suggested that they begin selling dresses on the internet.
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Rumors are also circulating thick and fast in the garment industry that has been shocked by the scale of the accident and the huge toll of lives.
The Clean Clothes Campaign, a charity group lobbying to improve working conditions in the garment industry, on Monday condemned a recent move by the European Union to relax restrictions on Myanmar, a step that could open the way for more garment manufacturing in the formerly military-run country.
This week, the cost of that extreme pricing was called into question when a building in Bangladesh collapsed that housed a manufacturer of clothing for Joe Fresh, in what is certainly the worst disaster in the history of the garment industry.
The tragedy, the deadliest incident in the history of the garment industry, came just months after a fire in another garment factory in Bangladesh in November killed 112 workers.
The blaze comes just two weeks after the collapse of the eight-story Rana Plaza building, home to five garment factories, killed at least 930 people and became the worst tragedy in the history of the global garment manufacturing industry.
This was the conclusion, for instance, of a study of the Los Angeles garment industry in the 1970s and 1980s.
The European Union's delegation to Bangladesh urged the government Wednesday to "act immediately" to improve working conditions in the country's garment industry.
To what extent Leapfrog is a response to genuine market need, as opposed to a piece of industrial policy intended to keep the European garment-making industry alive in the face of competition from low-wage countries, is not yet clear.
By comparison, most of the five million workers employed in Bangladesh's thriving garment export industry have had to leave their rural homes to work in the factories.
In a 1992 case involving the Gambino crime family and the garment industry, Spitzer let the defendants plead to lesser charges and avoid jail time in exchange for getting out of the business entirely.
By Saturday, they had resumed their grim recovery task, as the death toll surpassed 1, 100 in the world's worst garment industry disaster.
As of 2009, the garment industry in Lesotho provides roughly 40, 000 jobs.
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Bangladesh has built a huge garment industry in the past decade, using the lure of cheap wages to undercut China, which is still the world's largest producer.
The collapse is the latest in a series of deadly incidents that have focused global attention on safety standards in Bangladesh's export garment industry, which is the second biggest after China's.
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The November fire at the Tazreen garment factory drew international attention to the conditions workers toil under in Bangladesh's textile industry.
The country's powerful garment industry has been plagued by a series of disasters in recent months, including a November fire at the Tazreen factory that killed 112 and the building collapse.
Bangladesh's garment industry was the third-largest in the world in 2011, after China and Italy.
"The garment industry has operated for more than 10 years in Cambodia, so the buildings are getting old, " increasing the need for tighter inspections, said Kong Athit, secretary general of the Cambodian Labor Confederation, which represents garment workers, including some at Top World.
In practice, they provide cheap labour (mainly from Asia) for the garment industry, farming and fish-processing.
The year New Wave Style moved in to Rana Plaza, 2010, was a good one for Bangladesh's garment industry.
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