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Learning on your own: bricolage and the quest for relevance in the squeezed Bangladeshi garment supply chain

open access: yes, 2021
This chapter explores knowledge-acquisition strategies adopted by Bangladeshi garment suppliers, in pursuit of economic upgrading. The context is characterised by ‘tacit promissory’ contracting relationships, whereby suppliers make recurrent discrete ...
Sinkovics, Rudolf R   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Additives Enhancing Biodegradability in Plastics and Potential Implications for Textiles: A Mechanistic Review

open access: yesJournal of Applied Polymer Science, EarlyView.
Mechanistic insights from additive‐assisted plastic degradation guide the design of environmentally adaptive textile fibers. Functional additives enhance oxidative, hydrolytic, enzymatic, and microbial degradation pathways. Translating these strategies requires control of fiber architecture, additive distribution, and environmental interactions ...
Julia Cunniffe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

INSIGHTS INTO MIGRATION AND SPENDING PATTERNS BASED ON A SMALL-SCALE STUDY OF GARMENT WORKERS IN PHNOM PENH [PDF]

open access: yes
The Cambodian garment industry in Phnom Penh; employing as many as a quarter of a million people could be seen as a success story. Workers are in domestic terms paid at decent rates and their employments have had an important impact on their but also ...
Dahlberg, Elisabet
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MAPPING THE VARIATIONS OF TENSILE STRENGTH OVER THE AREA OF SHEEPSKIN LEATHER [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of the University of Oradea: Fascicle of Textiles, Leatherwork, 2014
Leather is not a uniform material from a structural perspective. The physical properties of leather change depending on the animal type and the animal individually.
MUTLU Mehmet Mete   +3 more
doaj  

The Ladies' Garment Worker, Volume 05, Issue 04

open access: yes, 1914
First published in April 1910, The Ladies’ Garment Worker was the official publication of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) through 1918. The journal appeared monthly and included sections in English, Italian, and Yiddish.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU)
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Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
wiley   +1 more source

The Ladies' Garment Worker, Volume 04, Issue 03

open access: yes, 1913
First published in April 1910, The Ladies’ Garment Worker was the official publication of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) through 1918. The journal appeared monthly and included sections in English, Italian, and Yiddish.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU)
core  

Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive: A case study of garment-research as a pedagogical practice. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Menswear has a long history of utilising garment archives as a research method to inform the creation of new design outcomes, with Massimo Osti, an Italian designer, widely credited as the primary proponent of this approach.
Groves, Andrew
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Circular Design Strategies Unleashed: Competitiveness and the Journey Towards Circular Manufacturing Businesses

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition to a circular economy (CE) remains hindered by the lack of practical strategies that simultaneously secure competitiveness and deliver sustainability outcomes for manufacturing organisations. While circular design is often cited as a cornerstone of CE, its concrete role in driving competitive advantage and organisational ...
Shamaila Ishaq   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

0224 "The Image of Adam’s Glory"

open access: yesRIHA Journal, 2019
The imagery of the "radiant body" and "luminous garment" occurs frequently in early Christian references to the Edenic state of Adam and its partial reinstatement by Moses, Jesus, and numerous saintly (usually ascetic) figures.
Bogdan G. Bucur, Vladimir Ivanovici
doaj   +1 more source

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