Garment industry

Trainees work at Snowtex garment factory in Dhamrai, near Dhaka, Bangladesh

‘Just a respite’: Accord to protect Bangladesh’s garment workers gets temporary extension

May 31, 2021Justice

A last-minute deal between brands, retailers and unions to extend negotiations for three more months will keep from lapsing an agreement aimed at protecting garment workers’ safety in Bangladesh. It was originally set to expire on May 31.

Rows of garment workers work on a factory floor in Myanmar

The true cost of Myanmar’s growing garment industry

May 29, 2018Women & Gender

How fair is your fashion? Take the quiz.

December 4, 2017Business, Finance & Economics

In Istanbul, outrage over Zara not paying garment workers

November 9, 2017Economics

These voices from the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh are heart-wrenching

April 24, 2015Justice

Proctor & Gamble look for rising ‘Tide’ of dry cleaners

June 16, 2014Business, Economics and Jobs

Louise Story tells us about Tide-branded dry cleaners will soon be popping up, right next door to your neighborhood mom and pop cleaners…and why the notion of a national dry cleaning chain has never taken off before.

A photographer focuses her lens on Indian dancers and their costumes

January 28, 2014Arts, Culture & Media

Briana Blasko spent five years traveling in India and documenting dancers and their costumes. The result is a series of stunning photos.

Teen uncovers harsh chemicals left on clothes by dry cleaning

August 15, 2013Health & Medicine

No one had quantified how much carcinogens linger in people’s clothes after they get back from the dry cleaner’s, until a high school student started asking questions.

Ethical clothing, made in Liberia

August 15, 2013Business, Economics and Jobs

Now that Liberia’s 14 year civil war is over, a fair-trade clothing factory is growing in the country’s capital Monrovia.

Soviet-Style Bureaucracy: One Woman’s Battle to Get Her Clothes Dry Cleaned

August 15, 2013Global Politics

The Soviet Union was a bureaucratic nightmare. Even the smallest task involved piles of paperwork and forms to fill out. Even now in modern-day Russia, that’s still the case if you want to get clothes dry cleaned.