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Assembly line balancing in garment industry

Expert Systems With Applications, 2012
Garment manufacturing is a traditional industry with global competition. The most critical manufacturing process is sewing, as it generally involves a great number of operations. The aim of assembly line balance planning in sewing lines is to assign tasks to the workstations, so that the machines of the workstation can perform the assigned tasks with a
James C Chen, Ling-Huey Su
exaly   +2 more sources

Garment Poetics: Costureras in Los Angeles' Garment Industry

open access: yes, 2021
Garment Poetics explores forms of resistance amongst Mexican and Salvadoran women who work(ed) in Los Angeles, California’s garment industry. Through the theoretical framework of women of color feminism, I turn to union archives to recuperate Mexican women’s organizing work in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union.
Fonseca-Ledezma, Jenesis Alejandra
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Worker harassment in garment industries: a study of select garment industries in Bengaluru

International Journal of Social and Economic Research, 2015
The present study is aimed assessing the extent of harassment experienced by employees of various garment industries in and around Bengaluru city. A total of 480 garment workers were randomly selected from 5 garment factories including men and women. They were administered a semi-structured schedule developed by the researcher with the help of experts ...
Hemamalini, M.J., Kodandarama, .
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The Garment and Textile Industries

1990
Two major forces are promoting dramatic change in the prospective international division of labor in garments and textiles.1 Producers in the NICs are now looking over their shoulders at nascent garment and textile export operations in the newly-invigorated economies of the Asian population giants — China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Pakistan ...
Ashoka Mody, David Wheeler
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Workplace violence in Bangladesh's garment industry

Social Science & Medicine, 2019
Workplace violence (WPV) is widely reported in the Bangladeshi garment industry, impacting women workers' health and wellbeing. We explore factors associated with female workers experience or witnessing of WPV and perpetration by managers, in eight Bangladeshi garment factories. We hypothesise workers' experience of WPV is associated with i) individual
Andrew Gibbs   +6 more
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Textile and Garment Industries

1994
It has been argued that high protection rate retards productivity and efficiency. In view of the widespread belief, the government has instituted trade policy reforms aimed to increase efficiency and competitiveness of industries through elimination of distortions in resource allocation.
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Recycling in the garment industry

R&D Management, 1975
AbstractAn analysis of the present situation. regarding the wastes produced by the United Kingdom garment industry is presented. It appears that fairly considerable amounts of materials uneconomic for conventional recycling are at present being wasted. Possibilities for utilization of these wastes are discussed.
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The garments industry

2000
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Mortimore, M., Lall, S., Romijn, H.A.
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