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Fiji’s Garment Industry: an Economic Analysis

, 2000
The May 2000 civilian coup has had a detrimental effect on investor confidence in Fiji. Political instability and uncertainty surrounds the economy and the garment industry – one of the successful products of the Export Oriented Industrialization ...
Narayan, Paresh
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Sustainable Tourism and Projectification: Evidence from South‐Eastern Italy

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how public policy can be used to promote local tourism and steer it towards sustainability. It uses the municipality of Lecce—a medium‐sized city in south‐eastern Italy—and the broader Salento region as a critical case study, drawing on descriptive statistics, administrative data on local policy projects promoting culture
Lorenzo Mascioli
wiley   +1 more source

Functional Sewing Workstation Design by Analyzing Male Bangladeshi Anthropometric Measurement in the Ready-Made Garment Industry. [PDF]

Public Health Chall
Ali MH, Hasan M, Ahad A, Redoy RA, Islam MJ, Amin MA, Koushik MA, Joy RA, Shahriar MMSMM.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

Depression and Workplace Stress among the Garment Industry Workers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. [PDF]

Indian J Occup Environ Med
Priya JO, Gnanaselvam NA, Arasu S, Joseph B.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Competitiveness of Cambodia's Garment Industry

, 2008
This paper examines the role of Cambodia’s garment industry in economic development, and the competitiveness of the industry after the removal of quota restrictions under the Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) at the beginning of 2005.
Prak, Thyly
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Productivity improvement through assembly line balancing by using simulation modeling in case of Abay garment industry Gondar. [PDF]

Heliyon
Teshome MM, Meles TY, Yang CL.
europepmc   +1 more source

TAXI, CHILLI AND MOBILE PARTY BRANCH: Reterritorialization of Migrants in Urban Villages, Shenzhen

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In China as well as in other countries, migrants often grapple with urban inequities by actively reshaping the functions and meanings of their environments. While acknowledging established frameworks such as place‐making and urban informality, this study adopts a complementary lens, framing migrants’ everyday practices as a process of ...
Xinrui Gao, Jennifer Day, Sun Sheng Han
wiley   +1 more source