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The transformation of the clothing industry in China [PDF]

open access: possibleAsia Pacific Business Review, 2014
This article examines the transformation of clothing manufacturing in China with a focus on institutional support, technological upgrading and global production chains. Evidence shows that reforms and integration into global production chains have rapidly expanded China's exports but these have also driven the relocation abroad of Chinese clothing ...
Zhang, M., Kong, X.X., Chenayah, S.
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Optimization of markers in clothing industry

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2008
The optimization of markers is one of the most important preparatory steps for production in the clothing industry. It determines the sizes of clothes to be laid and cut together. Markers are built on a work order basis. The work order is a matrix of sizes by colors that have to be covered by markers in an optimal way. The optimal way can be defined in
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The UK clothing industry

Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal, 2004
To provide an opinion as to the demise or metamorphosis of the UK clothing industry within the wider European context. Recently conducted research, along with a range of pertinent published (1978‐2004) statistical data are used to inform the authors' viewpoint on the development of the UK clothing industry.
Jones, Richard M., Hayes, Steven G.
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The European clothing industry

Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal, 2004
This paper examines earlier and more recent patterns of restructuring that have occurred as a consequence of import penetration. It focuses upon work reorganization, job losses and changes in the retail‐manufacturer relationships and how these trends differ in key European countries.
Ian M. Taplin, Jonathan Winterton
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The Dutch Clothing Industry

Foreign Trade Review, 1983
The Dutch clothing industry is an interesting case of an industrial sector on the decline, beil}-g seriously affected by growing international competition, whereby the emphasis is put on "unfair competition" by the so-called low-cost suppliers. Since "orderly restructuring" as a policy-instrument has not been much in operation, this ...
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A dying industry – or not? The future of the European textiles and clothing industry

Foresight, 2004
The textiles and clothing sector employs millions of people in the European Union (EU) and has a combined annual turnover of more than €200 billion. Over the last decade or so, more than a million jobs have been lost in the industry, partly through modernisation, but mainly as a result of international competition, especially from developing countries.
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Trajectories of development and the global clothing industry

Competition & Change, 2018
Clothing production increasingly occurs in global value chains. Industrial policies typically recommend ‘upgrading’ (increasing labour productivity by becoming more skill- and capital-intensive and producing higher valued products) yet firms can and do move up and down the value chain when profitable opportunities arise.
Nicoli Nattrass, Jeremy Seekings
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Prices in the Clothing Industry

The Journal of Industrial Economics, 1956
THE clothing industry manufactures an immense variety of garments ranging from the sheerest of women's underwear to the heaviest types of men's protective clothing, and as would be expected a high degree of specialization of product exists. It should, therefore, be stated at the outset that the present remarks refer to a family manufacturing business ...
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Optimization of roll cutting in clothing industry

Computers & Operations Research, 1997
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Conditioned clothing: the needs of industry and the wearer

Ergonomics, 1988
Abstract Conditioned clothing for alleviating the effects of heat and cold has found use mainly in military applications. There are a few circumstances in industry where the provision of such clothing could be an economic proposition. Very often, however, there are other factors that militate against its adoption, e.g.
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