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UPDATE: THIS BUILDING HAS BEEN DEMOLISHED
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.
This woman was recovering in hospital after collapsing in the garment factory.
www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1877768/rall...
These garment factory workers from the Kandal province of Cambodia ride a "romork", a vehicle made out of motorcycle and small truck parts, to get home. 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.
Photo: Chhor Sokunthea / World Bank
Find out how the World Bank is supporting trade in Cambodia: bit.ly/10u1wZD
This map appeared in Thursday's New York Times in an article on the tragedy in Dhaka; it is called "After Bangladesh, Seeking New Sources." Problem is, other manufacturing centers in Southeast Asia are too expensive; they pay more than the $37 per month the average worker in Bangladesh earns. The whole article here: nyti.ms/YQWSXs
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.
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.
A class of garment trainees funded by USAID learns to sew at the INDEPCO training center.
Photo by Ben Edwards/USAID
May 13, 2011, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Better Work Garment Factory. ©ILO
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Garment factory employees at their stations on the production line. ©ILO/Better Work Indonesia
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rain or shine, the Jewish steamster is hard at work, just a few meters away from the giant button & needle of the fashion district information booth
if I had a better zoom, you would be able to see the little rain drop about to fall from his nose ;)
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See nycdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2007/09/fashion-district-giant...
Fashion Week is starting today until the 12th. If you want to know all about the Spring 2008 collections, head to the Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week website.
It's only fitting that I would show you two sculptures of the Garment District:
• the Garment Worker, by Judith Weller, 1984
• the giant button-and-needle sculpture, designed by Pentagram, leaning against the Fashion Center Business Improvement District's Information Kiosk on Seventh Avenue and 39th Street.
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Garment workers, the backbone of Bangladesh's economy lead a tough life with their sub-par salary and long working time. Often they work for 10 straight long hours with only one launch break.
It's uncommon to see them returning to home before sun set.
Cambodian garment workers. ©ILO
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A garment trainee sifts through a pile of denim at the INDEPCO training center.
Photo by Ben Edwards/USAID
May 13, 2011, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
A group of newly graduated garment workers proudly pose for a photo at the INDEPCO training program. Training for this class was funded through USAID.
Photo by Ben Edwards/USAID
May 13, 2011, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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.
Hans Garoutea, INDEPCO's president, shows off the work of his garment trainees as a small group tours his training center.
Photo by Ben Edwards/USAID
May 13, 2011, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
A garment trainee puts the finishing touches on his graduation outfit as the garment instructor inspects the dress of a classmate. The class of garment workers was trained at the INDEPCO training facility with USAID funding.
Photo by Ben Edwards/USAID
May 13, 2011, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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.
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.