garment worker
Sews for manufacturers
A garment worker is someone employed in clothing manufacturing—cutting fabric, sewing seams, operating machines, or finishing pieces.
The term often appears in discussions of labor conditions and workers' rights: Garment workers in the factory earned below minimum wage.
The related garment industry encompasses all aspects of clothing production.
- seamstressOne who stitches garments
- tailorClothing alteration professional
- sewingCraft with needle and thread
- sewing machineDevice for joining fabric
- factoryIndustrial production facility
needle and thread · shop floor · needle · thread · fabric · sweatshop · stitching · textile · machinist · hem · seam · cotton · wages · minimum wage · piece rate · union · pattern · cutter
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- blue-collar jobsfactory workers, construction, farm hand, miners, miner
- factory workersfactory hand, machine operator, assembler, welder, machinist
- hourly jobsday laborer, factory hand, laborer, part-timer, temp
- garment makingsewing, stitching, hemming, tailoring, dressmaking
- sweatshopssweatshop labor, factory workers, low wages, long hours, unsafe conditions
garment workerfashion designer
Creator of clothing lines
couturier · creative director · fashion mogul · designer · tastemaker
garment, worker, garments, work, works, worked, working, workable, rework