Running along the ceiling of the Joseph Abboud suit factory in New Bedford, Massachusetts, are what appear to be upside-down railroad tracks. The system shuttles fabric between workstations — from ...
This revamped industry model allows companies to design, create and sell massive amounts of clothing, but this convenience and speed come at a cost: Discarded clothes end up at landfills at breakneck ...
Garment workers stitching clothes for major fashion brands are "going hungry" and taking out loans to feed their families due ...
China produces one third of the hundred billion odd garments that are bought each year, and to the casual observer, the Parawin facility on the outskirts of Ganzhou, southern China, looks like pretty ...
Lon Vanna has been working around the clock for months but she doesn't sew clothes anymore - she guards the machines in the ...