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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Garment Industry"”.
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Activating Communities, Mobilizing Women: Affective Organizing in Bangladesh's Ready-Made Garment Industry
… Bangladesh. Focused on the country’s ready-made garment (RMG) industry – a notoriously anti-union sector where women comprise approximately eighty per cent of the work force, and which generates USD $46 billion per year in export earnings – this dissertation demonstrates that contrary to the …
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The ladies' garment industry in Boston : a study of characteristics affecting choice of location
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1958.
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Beyond the Cloth: Exploring How Women are Represented in Human Rights Organizations through Bangladesh's Garment Industry
… rights organizations represent women in the garment industry. I investigate a variety of organizations and look at how they utilize women’s voices to demonstrate how human rights organizations frame women’s narratives in a way that supports their own claims. When organizations representing …
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Global Corporate Social Responsibility and Policy Evolution in the Garment Industry: A Case Study from Bangladesh Using a Multiple-Streams Approach and Punctuated Equilibrium Theory
… and legally binding agreement governing garment factory conditions in that country. The Accord led to a series of audits aimed at reforming a large part of Bangladesh’s garment industry, hence there has been a shift in a working environment ensuring the safety of garment workers. The case …
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Assessing the impact of corporate social responsibility and total quality management on the firms’ performance: a case of the ready-made garment industry in the emerging economy of Bangladesh
… performance in the context of the emerging garment industry in Bangladesh?’</i>. To conduct the survey a sample of 499 employees from 25 garment industries in Bangladesh was used for this empirical study. A small element of qualitative interview-based investigation was conducted through …
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A gendered analysis of the ready-made garments (RMG) sector of Bangladesh: a paradox of empowerment and dis-empowerment
… to the expansion of the Bangladeshi export-led garment industry, which in turn has resulted in the feminization of labor. While the increase in number of poor women workers entering the formal economy of Bangladesh may give the impression of empowerment, I argue that the disadvantages associated …
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Slow Fashion Strategies for the Guangdong Industry from the Perspective of Well-Being
… the sustainable development of fashion industry is receiving more and more attention. Slow fashion, as the opposite of fast fashion, is a fashion concept that promotes the sustainable development of the fashion industry by providing high-quality products, slowing down the production …
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A predictive approach for identifying high performance factories
… leading indicators for firm survival in the garment industry. This project seeks to identify the major drivers of factory success through the lens of current factory performance metrics (quality, delivery, and compliance) and through a qualitative survey distributed to factories in China, …
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Coordinating the multi-retailer, single supplier procurement processes for a seasonal product with supply contracts
… risk. This thesis looks at an example from the garment industry where retailers order to replenish stock after a small assortment buy is placed at the start of the finite selling season. The suppliers must place production orders for the entire selling season before the selling season begins. It …
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Fashion, Freedom, and Feminism: The Transcendent Work of Rosa Genoni and Her "Tanagra Dress" Reimagined
<p>The fashion industry itself is broad in scope and dependent upon numerous sub-industries to produce its garments. It is heavily dependent upon machinery of all kinds, yet unlike many industries today, it is still also largely reliant on manual labor, specifically minority women labor. This …
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Adaptive Reuse through Layering: Transforming the Rex Trueform Clothing Factory
… years have past since the last garment was produced in this factorybuilding, which was designed in 1934 by one of Cape Town's best-knownmodernist architects, Max Policansky. It is now abandoned and derelict -left fordead with the possibility of demolition threatening its …
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Successful public sector enforcement of environmental standards in the Toritama Jeans industry in Pernambuco, Brazil
… small firms in traditional industries such as garment, footwear, furniture and tanneries have caused major environmental degradation in many places throughout the world. Because these firms provide significant employment and income in poor regions and often work under financial and technical …
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A CRAVING FOR HISTORY: IMMIGRANT THEMES IN JEWISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE
… immigrant's rise up the ladder of success in the garment industry. The chapter emphasizes the psychological strains of transformation.</p><p>Chapter IV deals with the second generation's flight from immigrant neighborhoods into the larger American sphere, and the necessity to give shape to this …
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Bridging domestic concerns and international markets : the story of large garment producers in Damascus, Syria
… in Syria a rapidly increasing number of large garment producers, that are supplying multinational buyers from Europe, and are rapidly transforming the country's garment sector. The aim of this study is to understand (i) why and how Syria is increasingly becoming a production base for several …
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Rose Piper: New Discoveries
… began a twenty-eight year term in the textile industry where she rose through the ranks of the garment industry. Piper’s textile career included over ten design firms, some of the firms included: JJ Knitted Fabrics, Fred Levy Studio, and many others. In 1979, Piper retired from the textile …
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INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL OF AN INDUSTRIAL SEWING MACHINE
To compete with garment manufacturers world-wide , it is essential that the British sewing industry automates. In order to achieve this automation sewing machines must be capable of measuring and controlling their performance. The advancement of practical, automated, high speed sewing machines, …
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What only heaven hears: Citizens and the state in the wake of HIV scale-up in Lesotho
… was a factory-based clinic in the country's garment industry, where a public-private partnership provided HIV services to workers. In both sites, research extended far beyond the clinic. In the former site, this meant working with: peri-urban communities served by the clinic; two support …
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Latex Magazine
En el siguiente trabajo se expone el proceso de creación de LATEX Magazine, un medio de naturaleza digital especializado en moda. El territorio conceptual y los contenidos en los que la revista se basa es en mostrar la moda como parte de una cultura creativa. Pues, se concibe esta como una …
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Sustentación de caso: propuesta de un plan estratégico del ingreso al mercado peruano de una empresa del sector fast fashion
… (Zara, H&M and Forever 21) in the Fast Fashion industry. Fast Retaling is among the three best in the Fast Fashion industry worldwide, its SPA business model (retailer of specialized store of own brand) allows a good quality of products, constant innovation in production and provide solutions to …