Word: garments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ludlum, the nation's largest maker of stainless steel. Main issues: working conditions such as increased overtime and limited vacation schedules. Leslie Fay Cos., a New York City-based dressmaker, last week was hit by its first strike in 40 years. Some 1,800 members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in six states walked out to protest a company plan to move all production to Asia and the Caribbean...
Comulative trauma disorders (CTDs),characterized by pain, numbness or swelling in thehands, among other symptoms, were once industriessuch as meat and poultry processing, electronicassembly and garment production...
...Bronx childhood, spent under the thumb of a domineering mother. Like many designers, little Calvin began sewing as a tyke and was impatient with school. After a couple of dead-end apprenticeships, his future dawned with the opening of an elevator door. In 1968 he had a tiny garment-district office when a Bonwit Teller executive on his way to another floor glimpsed some coats. He ordered his assistant out of the elevator to check them out. Soon the young designer was the star of the store's young line...
Obsession contains a wealth of fascinating shop talk about the garment industry: endlessly fluctuating deals, shifting alliances and enmities, financial escapades of the riskiest sort. Klein has endured his share of rough times, especially when, with the help of Michael Milken, he issued some junk bonds. Only the generosity of Klein's billionaire friend David Geffen -- a $50 million investment in 1992 -- kept the firm afloat...
Muzaffar Chishti, director of the Immigration Project for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, tried to explain cultural resistance to immigration...