Word: garment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...named Colonel Robert Hall moved to San Antonio, Texas, from his home in Tennessee. A sepia-toned photo of him is framed in Bezos' living room and shows the man wearing a bizarre outfit stitched together from dozens of different kinds of animal pelts. The settler favored that multicolored garment in later years. "When he walked down the streets of San Antonio, the crowds would part," says Jackie Bezos, Jeff's mother and the family historian...
Shedding the garment industry's longstanding image of secrecy and silence, Gear proclaimed earlier this month that it would disclose the locations of its factories by January, in response to heightened concerns about sweatshop labor. Yesterday, Champion said it would do the same...
...knowing where a garment comes from is by using an "RN" tracking number given by the Federal Trade Commission, according to Thomas J. Wheatley, a spokesperson for the National Labor Committee, a non-profit working in support of human and worker rights, primarily in Central America...
...proposal, assuming that factory locations and information are made public, would then staff a small, independent monitoring organization that responds to complaints rather than tries to inspect every garment factory on the globe. A secret, corporate model such as the FLA, on the other hand, lacking the aid of public scrutiny, would try to do all the monitoring itself...
Even if we believe that for-profit consulting firms with long-term business relationships to garment corporations can deliver objective information, as the present FLA plan stands, each factory would be inspected once every ten years--ten lifetimes in today's economy. And, since inspections are pre-announced, factories owners will rest easy, knowing they can abuse women workers and bust unions for years and still enjoy valuable "sweat-free" certification from the U.S. government--and Harvard...