2 int'l exhibits on today in Pasay.
The Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM), an export trade promotions agency of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), will launch two international exhibit and consumer fairs -- the Manila Furnishings and Apparel Manufacturers Exchange and the Industry Search 2001 -- in Pasay City today. ...

English-Chinese glossary of personal names, corporate names, and garment industry terms.
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Making connections.
What's Behind the Label? Fair wages and safe working conditions are essential to help provide solutions to long-term poverty. For this reason, PWS&D supports the work of The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN), a Canadian network working with groups in Mexico, Central America, and Asia to improve conditions...

Sweatshop workers organize and win.
The sweatshop is back with a vengeance. From maquiladoras in Mexico and Central America to a slave-labor factory in El Monte, California, poor young women trapped in desperate conditions are making designer clothes for upscale consumers. Because subcontractors--not the clothing manufacturers themselves--employ these workers, the industry has managed to...

Guilds, unions, and garment factories: notes on Chinese in the apparel industry.
This volume of Chinese America: History & Perspectives includes several essays on Chinese labor guilds, labor unions, and the apparel industry. The following write-up is intended to provide relevant background information to better help the reader understand how each essay is related to a particular stage in history and...

Life on the line: it makes no difference whether you're in San Antonio, Texas or Tehuacan, Mexico - if you're a migrant and a woman who stitches jeans ... you can be sure of a mean deal.
Beneath the roller coaster of global styles and markets lies a seismic shift, shaking the lives of the women who stich jeans together. Women in the developing world, and migrants to the First World, increasingly find themselves working on what feminists have dubbed the `global assembly line'. Constant restructuring...

No fruits, no shirts, no service: the real-world consequences of closed borders.
The last pickup truck pulled away from the parking lot, and the men settled back onto the folding chairs of the little cottage in central San Jose where they wait for offers of day labor. The morning rush was over; nothing to do now but wait until after lunch, when...