CHENNAI, India, June 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A rare compensation award to a bonded worker whose child was killed at a textile factory in India could act as a precedent for other slavery ...

MASERU, Lesotho -- The deafening roar of hundreds of sewing machines has gone silent. Spools of thread in every color are covered in dust. The warehouse is dark and empty. In the tiny African nation ...

In the heart of western China, an extraordinary factory is attracting all eyes. Here, textile production takes place without ...

The century-old Jacquard looms lining the factory floor of Scalamandre in Long Island City, Queens, offer as pure an evocation of industrial-era romance as did the Twentieth Century Limited. But ...

As many as three labourers lost their lives after a wall collapsed at a power loom factory in the Bhiwandi area of Maharashtra's Thane district on Friday. Four people were also injured in the accident ...

The name had also been a promise. For the nearly 2,000 dismissed workers of Jerzees de Honduras, a Fruit of the Loom factory that produced clothing under the Russell Athletic brand, the opening of ...

While no causalities have been reported, millions of raw cloths including dozens of power loom machines, warping machines, and cloth threads were destroyed in the flame A fire broke out here in ...

A fire broke out on Wednesday morning at a power loom factory in Khoni village, Siddharth Nagar, as per the officials. The blaze escalated when a cylinder at the site exploded, resulting in one ...