Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arri...

The garment industry in Vietnam is one of the country's strongest industries world. However, production process still encounters problems regarding scheduling that does not equate to an optimal process. paper introduces a solution resolves potential delays and lateness hinders using integer programming order allocation with make-to-order manufacturing viewpoint. A number constraints were consid...

A previously unreported subset of high-pressure injection injuries, namely those involving solvents used in the garment dry cleaning industry, is presented. Dry cleaning solutions contain isoparaffinic hydrocarbons, methoxypropanol, and dichlorofluoroethane. Although these solvents have limited potential for systemic toxicity, severe local toxicity causing tissue necrosis often results in loss ...

BACKGROUND Inhalation of cotton-based particulate has been associated with respiratory symptoms and overt lung disease related to endotoxin exposure in some studies. This cross-sectional study measures personal exposure to inhalable dust and endotoxin in the textile industry of Nepal. METHODS This study was conducted in four sectors (garment making, carpet making, weaving, and recycling) of t...