Lesotho, for example, relies almost exclusively on garment manufacturing for mass employment and income generation.
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That would be a disaster for Bangladesh, where 20 million people depend on garment workers for financial support.
There is always another country that is happy to take on garment manufacturing.
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But most business travelers simply want to bring on garment bags containing a few days' worth of clothing, including a suit or two, as well as a briefcase cum laptop computer.
Cruz was among 300 immigrants arrested during a raid on a garment factory in New Bedford, Mass.
When the WTO Multi-Fiber Arrangement was allowed to expire in 2005, lifting quotas on hyper-competitive Asian economies, the effect on African garment producers was severe.
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Mr Quader says the government "did not do enough" to discourage the worst practices in the business, as cut-throat operators have cashed in on the garment boom over the last decade.
The biggest repercussions of the unrest would likely fall on the garment sector, which is "one of the most important drivers of growth in Bangladesh, comprising 80% of total exports and employing more than 3 million people, " the report said.
He searched his dirty white sarong, which was the only garment on his body, for a relatively clean corner, and wiped the table off.
The garment takes them on a journey, and so my journey with the garment has finished.
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.
"We are connecting consumers with the garment workers on a personal level, " he says.
They hesitated to enter the building Wednesday morning, said Abdur Rahim, who worked in a garment factory on the fifth floor.
Bangladeshi rescue workers say a large group of people has been found alive inside a garment factory on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka.
They also have arrested the owners of the five garment factories on allegations they forced employees back to work despite safety concerns over the building.
At Myint Soe's garment factory on the outskirts of Rangoon, rows of women hunch over sewing machines and irons under neon lights, pressing, folding, hemming, in stifling heat.
SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) More than two days after their factory collapsed on them, at least some garment workers were still alive in the corpse-littered debris Friday, pinned beneath tons of mangled metal and concrete.
For a garment outfit, utterly dependent on whimsical shifts in public tastes, this was an outrageously high price.
Or, after the dust has settled on yet another human tragedy at a garment factory, will it be business as usual?
The disaster put the spotlight on conditions in the country's garment sector.
On Monday, the government agreed to allow garment workers to form trade unions without permission from factory owners.
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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Aluminum foil as wrinkle remover: To get wrinkles out of silk, wool, and rayon clothes that can't take direct heat, place a piece of foil on your ironing board, then lay the garment flat over it.
The dead included the factory's managing director, Mahbubur Rahman, who was also on the board of directors of the powerful Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association.
Rescue work at the site of the Rana Plaza garment factory continued for a sixth day on Monday, but army spokesman Shahinul Islam said "there is little hope of finding anyone alive".
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If you don't wear shapewear every day, it takes time to get used to the feel of what is essentially a compression garment, which is harder to put on than regular clothes.
"Owners decided to close their factories on safety grounds after workers went on a rampage almost every day after the collapse of Rana Plaza, " Mohammad Atiqul Islam, president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, said on Monday.
On Monday the government announced a panel that would inspect garment factories for building flaws.
The next year, New Wave Style expanded to a 40, 000-square-foot space in Rana Plaza, located in Savar, a former agricultural area on Dhaka's outskirts that was fast becoming a garment-industry boomtown.
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And many of the new jobs in crowded garment factories replaced even lower paying, harsher work on farms.
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