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1978 von Judith Weller, Denkmal für alle Textilarbeiter/innen, 7th Avenue, New York
1978 Judith Weller, monument to all garment workers, 7th Avenue, New York
"The Garment Worker" is a sculpture by Judith Weller. The man in the sculpture is the artist's father. Commissioned by the Public Art Fund and the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, the sculpture has been seen in the Garment District in Mid-Manhattan since 1984. It is a tribute to the garment workers and seamstresses who worked tirelessly for many years in this neighborhood.
Bangladesh is one of the fastest growing merging markets in the world today. Literally millions of families of moving out of poverty and some entering the middle classes.
This has been enabled primarily by women who work and so contribute to the economy. A great example of this is the creation of the Ready to wear garments industry. Brands Like `Tesco, Zara and Miss Selfridge, to name but a few produce their garments in Bangladesh, made by womenlike this who are rushing to work.
Yes there are issue that need to be resolved like stricter application of work and safety and a higher minimum wage. But conversely, years ago, these women were idle and without income.
Today there earnings provide for a better standard of living and crucially providing their children an education.
Transformation is possible within a generation
Calhoun Falls is a mill town in South Carolina, near the Savannah River. An extension of the cotton photographs that precede these images, I suppose. Farm to factory.
Knoxville, TN, 2012.
The crows are too fierce now a days, they don't flee.
Loneliness is nothing to be afraid of, they know.
.....and fear of loneliness engulfed the scarecrow.
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14-yr. old striker, Fola La Follette, and Rose Livingston
1913 (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
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Photograph shows suffrage and labor activist Flora Dodge "Fola" La Follette (1882-1970), social reformer and missionary Rose Livingston and a young striker during a garment strike in New York City in 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
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179 garment factories in Dhaka have closed because Western retailers have cancelled their orders. The garment industry is hugely important in Bangladesh - it accounts for 80% of its exports, and usually employs four million women workers. These women are poor any way. They exist from paycheck to paycheck and will now experience enormous poverty in Dhaka. (Image taken from Dhaka news)
Garment Worker by Judith Weller (b.1937, Tel Aviv, Israel) is a realistic rendering of a garment worker, wearing a yarmulke and hunched over a hand-operated sewing machine. The figure is modeled after the artist’s father, who was a machine operator in New York’s garment industry. “When I was a little girl, I recall seeing him at work,” Well explained. “I utilized what I know of him as well as my memory in creating the sculpture.” The sculpture was created to commemorate the Jewish garment workers, the backbone of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century.
Thousands of workers and their unions rallied across Bangladesh April 24, the one-year anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse that killed more than 1,100 garment workers. The Solidarity Center is training garment worker organizers--many of them women--and supporting their efforts to demand safe factories. Credit: Solidarity Center
These women are garment workers returning home after their shift. These are some of the women who make "brand names" for the European markets. They travel on overcrowded vehicles which often crash. They earn about 140$ per month which might just buy you a pair of Adidas trainers/boots made in Cambodia
Each and every morning, thousands of Garment workers walk towards their workplace. They basically run the economy of Bangladesh. They are performing their duty with dedication. But are they getting proper reward for the hard work?
These boys work in small rooms, in an old building, at Keraniganj, Dhaka. They are under-age and probably poorly paid.
Garment Worker by Judith Weller (b.1937, Tel Aviv, Israel) is a realistic rendering of a garment worker, wearing a yarmulke and hunched over a hand-operated sewing machine. The figure is modeled after the artist’s father, who was a machine operator in New York’s garment industry. “When I was a little girl, I recall seeing him at work,” Well explained. “I utilized what I know of him as well as my memory in creating the sculpture.” The sculpture was created to commemorate the Jewish garment workers, the backbone of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century.
Workers at this garment factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh, formed a union with the Bangladesh Independent Garment Workers Union Federation (BIGUF), a longtime Solidarity Center ally, enabling them to achieve safe workplaces and living wages. Credit: Solidarity Center (2015)
On May 1, 2018, women rally for a living wage, maternity protections, freedom of association and an end to gender-based violence at work, alongside labor rights organization and Solidarity Center partner Awaj Foundation near the Dhaka Press Club. Bangladesh’s ready-made garment industry is the country’s biggest export earner. However, wages are the lowest among major garment-manufacturing nations. Without a union, garment workers, the majority who are women, are often harassed or fired when they ask their employer to fix workplace hazards or seek living wages.
Photo Credit: Musfiq Tajwar, Solidarity Center
The garment industry is Cambodia's largest formal sector employer. By mid-2008, the sector had more than 300 factories, with nearly 340,000 workers. Here, a worker sews garter to a skirt. Phnom Penh, Cambodia Photo: Chhor Sokunthea / World Bank
This boy looks as if he has already lost his childhood. In Dhaka. There are a huge number of garment workshops: some excellent, some reasonable and some very poor. The poor ones are likely to have under age workers, since women know the good ones.
A woman irons fabric at a garments factory at the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone. The Cambodia Trade Development Support Program Project of the World Bank aims to help the government in formulating and implementing effective trade policies and increasing efficiency. Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo: Chhor Sokunthea / World Bank
Find out more about this project: Cambodia Trade Development Support Program
I play games on my PC quite a lot and I love COD series. But trust me, The Call of Duty is not fun for this man. He is one of the garment workers who toils too hard to earn , to support his family supposedly left back in his village. If he fails to reach in the factory in due time, he might be fired.
Job security is virtually non-existent for them...
In mid-2008, 90% of garment factory workers were women. The women workers in this photo are riding a "romork" home. Kandal province, Cambodia. Photo: Chhor Sokunthea / World Bank
Find out more about this project: Cambodia Trade Development Support Program
Judith Weller, 1984, Garment District, Midtown, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, sculpture. Photo 2 of 3.
Dhaka, Narayanganj, Bangladesh.
Are you an early riser? If you are, you've probably seen them. Every morning, they head together to their workplaces. They are the women workers of ready-made garments industries in Bangladesh. While they walk, they hold firmly to their lunch boxes and keep their eyes on the street. They are determined to change their fate.
The statistics is staggering. Around 1.5 million women work in the export oriented garments industries of Bangladesh, which is 80 percent of the total workforce. Even a few years ago, women from the underprivileged portion of the population were even afraid to dream about such a revolution. Hope was something synonymous to echo, which reflected back to them when they hoped for anything but a confined shelter in their husband's home. Such a shelter came with a price of hefty dowry and torture from the sadomasochistic and illiterate husbands. In a society, where the only vent to freedom is education, these women usually cannot even finish their fifth grade before they have to leave schools.
The garments industry came as another pathway to empowerment. It provided the taste of freedom and self-independence that these women could never dream of. When this industry was rising in Bangladesh, they jumped on the very first wagon of freedom to prove what they could do if given an opportunity. They are paid a nominal wage; they have to face a lot of hurdles from the society which is not yet ready to accept them outside the four walls. But, the hunger for independence is insatiable. They have learnt how to work along with the men and in most of the cases surpass their male counterparts in terms of productivity. In the male dominant domain of Bangladesh, this is a silent revolution.
Despite the persisting problems of worker-owner conflicts on wages, sabotage and infrastructure issues, the ready-made garments industries are the single most important export sector of Bangladesh, which stand third among all the garments exporting nations in the world. When you buy a T-shirt with the tag "Made in Bangladesh" from a super shop in America or UK, you might wonder how a small country like Bangladesh conquered the textile market of the world. Well, now you know who are behind this victory, these little women with their big dreams. They have found the factories of freedom they have been waiting for decades.
Freedom is now.
Calhoun Falls is a mill town in South Carolina, near the Savannah River. An extension of the cotton photographs that precede these images, I suppose. Farm to factory.
10-story neo-Renaissance loft building designed by John Woolley
working conditions at Triangle Waist Company typical of early 1900s garment industry shops, overcrowded, unsanitary, dangerous • International Ladies Garment Workers Union began to attract members • Triangle fired 150 union sympathizers, 1909, leading to strike by shirtwaist workers, 80% women • about 20K strikers in NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore • first major strike of women workers in US
after 13 wk. strike, many employers signed contracts with ILGWU • Triangle workers got small wage increases but no union recognition or better safety conditions • a year later, fire on Asch Bldg. eighth floor spread to floors above, all three floors occupied by Triangle factory • locked doors, inadequate fire escapes contributed to deaths of 146 workers, mostly immigrant Jewish and Italian females 13-23 yrs. old • many jumped to their deaths from windows • although not universally accepted, one widely quoted estimate had duration of fire at 18 minutes
nation stunned, became catalyst for reforms • NYC and state adopted new laws to protect public from fires, ensure worker health and safety • served as models for other cities, states and federal labor legislation of New Deal era • annual ceremony at site to commemorate the fire, firefighters, city officials, garment industry workers • ladder raised to 6th floor, bell tolled to commemorate each worker who died, students read victims' names
After the fire, building repaired, returned to industrial use • New York University leased the eighth floor, 1916, eventually occupied the entire building, now known as the Brown Building of Science --Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report (pdf)
The Triangle Factory Fire (Cornell U.) • Eyewitness at the Triangle --Wm. G. Shephard • Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition • Triangle Fire Still Burns --The Jewish Week • Max Blanck Arraigned (New York Times, 09/20/1913 • History First Hand • Triangle: The Fire That Changed America --Jewish Daily Forward • Wikipedia • video: The Triangle Fire (9:18)
designated NYC Landmark, 2003 • National Register of Historic Places #91002050, 1991
This plaza occupies the Braodway and Seventh Avenue sides of the full-block office building between West 39th and 40th Streets.
On the 7th Avenue side, are two tributes to the ares history as the Fashion District, or Garment District. The first, the The Garment Worker (1984), is a life sized bronze sculpture by Judith Weller, depciting an immigrant man at a sewing machine. Weller came to the United States as an exchange student from Tel Aviv in 1957, and in 1978 submitted a 24-inch sculpture of her tailor father to the exhibition of the National Sculpture Society. Someone from the Ladies Garment Workers Union liked it so much they sponsored a larger version.
The second is an octagonal Kiosk, designed by Pentagram Architectural Services, which was awarded the 1995 Art Commission Award for Public Architecture. This unique Claes Oldenburg inspired structure incorporates the world's largest button appended to the structures roof, held upright by a 31-foot-long steel needle. The Kiosk is the first all-inclusive, central information resource center serving sourcing information to national and international fashion professionals including press, stylists, photographers, designers, buyers, manufacturers, trading companies, etc.
On the Broadway side, in what is commonly referred to as Golda Meir Plaza, is a bronze bust of Ms. Meir.
This plaza occupies the Braodway and Seventh Avenue sides of the full-block office building between West 39th and 40th Streets.
On the 7th Avenue side, are two tributes to the ares history as the Fashion District, or Garment District. The first, the The Garment Worker (1984), is a life sized bronze sculpture by Judith Weller, depciting an immigrant man at a sewing machine. Weller came to the United States as an exchange student from Tel Aviv in 1957, and in 1978 submitted a 24-inch sculpture of her tailor father to the exhibition of the National Sculpture Society. Someone from the Ladies Garment Workers Union liked it so much they sponsored a larger version.
The second is the Fashion Center Business Improvement Kiosk, designed by Pentagram Architectural Services, which was awarded the 1995 Art Commission Award for Public Architecture.
Adjacent to the sculpture is a giant needle threading a button. Located on the NE corner of 39th Street and 7th Avenue, this giant needle and button were built in 1995 as part of the Fashion Center Information Kiosk. The Claes Oldenburg - inspired sculpture has a 31 foot long needle and the world largest button.
Weird New York: Your Travel Guide to New York's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
By Chris Gethard
The Garment Worker, an eight-foot bronze sculpture by Judith Weller, was installed at 555 Seventh Avenue in 1984 to honor the area’s history as the Garment District. The sculpture, depicting an immigrant man at a sewing machine, was inspired by Weller’s smaller 1978 piece of her tailor father, which she submitted to the National Sculpture Society exhibition. The larger version was sponsored by the Ladies Garment Workers Union to commemorate the Jewish garment workers who were central to New York’s garment industry.
10-story neo-Renaissance loft building designed by John Woolley
working conditions at Triangle Waist Company typical of early 1900s garment industry shops, overcrowded, unsanitary, dangerous • International Ladies Garment Workers Union began to attract members • Triangle fired 150 union sympathizers, 1909, leading to strike by shirtwaist workers, 80% women • about 20K stikers in NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore • first major strike of women workers in US
after 13 wk. strike, many employers signed contracts with ILGWU • Triangle workers got small wage increases but no union recognition or better safety conditions • a year later, fire on Asch Bldg. eighth floor spread to floors above, all three floors occupied by Triangle factory • locked doors, inadequate fire escapes contributed to deaths of 146 workers, mostly immigrant Jewish and Italian females 13-23 yrs. old • many jumped to their deaths from windows • although not universally accepted, one widely quoted estimate had total duration of fire at 18 minutes
nation stunned, became catalyst for reforms • NYC and state adopted new laws to protect public from fires, ensure worker health and safety • served as models for other cities, states and federal labor legislation of New Deal era • annual ceremony at site to commemorate the fire, firefighters, city officials, garment industry workers • ladder raised to 6th floor, bell tolled to commemorate each worker who died, students read victims' names
After the fire, building repaired, returned to industrial use • New York University leased the eighth floor, 1916, eventually occupied the entire building, now known as the Brown Building of Science --Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report (pdf)
The Triangle Factory Fire (Cornell U.) • Eyewitness at the Triangle --Wm. G. Shephard • Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition • Triangle Fire Still Burns --The Jewish Week • Max Blanck Arraigned (New York Times, 09/20/1913 • History First Hand • Triangle: The Fire That Changed America --Jewish Daily Forward • Wikipedia • video: The Triangle Fire (9:18)
designated NYC Landmark, 2003 • National Register of Historic Places #91002050, 1991
It is vital to fight human trafficking in all its forms but labour trafficking is the most common. Of 21 million in forced labour 70% are in forced labour exploitation and 22% are in forced sexual exploitation.
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Garment workers on their way to work in Paltan, Dhaka. The Skills Development Project helped improve the skills of millions of workers in the ready-made garments and textiles, light engineering, and construction industries – the three main employers in the country.
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Bangladesh is the second largest garment product exporter in the world. Logically, A large number of workers are involved in the garment industry here. Despite making the finest quality fabrics with their own hand, they can't even dream of wearing them for the retail price of a single cloth is higher than their monthly salary.
So, these sort of street stores are their source of clothes. Per piece of cloth costs about 2-3 dollars and they are happy wearing these.
Irony. Isn't it?
According to a Wikipedia article (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Ladies%27_Garment_Wor...) on the International Ladies Garment Workers Union,
"The Garment Worker (1984) by Judith Weller was commissioned by the ILGWU and the Public Art Fund, and donated to the City of New York. It is on permanent display outside 555 Seventh Avenue, between West 39th and 40th Streets in the Garment District of Midtown Manhattan. It portrays a garment worker at a sewing machine and is intended as a reminder of the role of the ILGWU's members in making New York one of the garment and fashion centers of the world."
Improving working conditions in departure countries, like Bangladesh, is a priority for us. The ILO is working on an action plan to improve labour inspection and factory safety in the country.
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Bangladeshi Garment Workers march to mark the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in the USA, and the deaths of 502 of their comrades in factory fires since 1990. NGWF photo.
After attending a national May Day event in Dhaka, the ILO Deputy Director-General for Field Operations, Gilbert Houngbo met Mikail Shipar, Secretary of Labour and Employment.
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Gilbert Houngbo is leading a high-level mission to Bangladesh to offer support and expedite action by all parties following the collapse of the Rana Plaza Building in Savar, which left at least 380 people dead.
A Haitian woman in a USAID-funded class of garment trainees learns to sew through at the INDEPCO training facility.
Photo by Ben Edwards/USAID
May 13, 2011, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Bouncing between two very different worlds – that of impoverished garment workers and his own Western lifestyle – Timmerman puts a personal face on the controversial issues of globalization and outsourcing. Whether bowling with workers in Cambodia or riding a roller coaster with laborers in Bangladesh, he bridges the gap between impersonal economic forces and the people most directly affected by them. For anyone who wants to truly understand the real issues and the human costs of globalization, Where Am I Wearing? is an indispensable and unforgettable journey (Source: Anon 2008 np).
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"The Garment Worker (1984), is a life sized bronze sculpture by Judith Weller, depciting an immigrant man at a sewing machine. Weller came to the United States as an exchange student from Tel Aviv in 1957, and in 1978 submitted a 24-inch sculpture of her tailor father to the exhibition of the National Sculpture Society. Someone from the Ladies Garment Workers Union liked it so much they sponsored a larger version."
Chris Gethard: Weird New York: Your Travel Guide to New York's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
The Work in Freedom programme focuses on women and girls in the garment industry, as they are often subject to forced overtime and low wages, and on domestic workers because of the unprotected nature of their work.
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