garment workers
Factory sewing staff
Garment workers are people employed in making clothing—cutting fabric, sewing seams, attaching buttons.
The term often appears in discussions of labor conditions, since garment work has historically involved low wages and poor working environments: The factory employed hundreds of garment workers.
Related to the garment industry or garment district, areas where clothing manufacturing concentrates.
- tailorClothing alteration professional
- sweatshopsExploitative manufacturing facilities
- sweatshop laborExploitative factory work
- seamstressOne who stitches garments
- sewingCraft with needle and thread
needle and thread · stitching · scissors · Bangladesh · cut · sewing machine · cutting table · piecework · thread · factory floor · labor unions · union organizing · press · ethical sourcing · fashion industry · fire safety · strike · labor-intensive
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- fashion industryfashion, fashion design, fashion designers, fashion shows, fashion week
- laborlabor, labor union, work, labor force, laborers
- child laborchild labor, child workers, child labor laws, bonded labor, debt bondage
- Chinese AmericaChinese Exclusion Act, Chinatown, Chinatowns, transcontinental railroad, railroad workers
- garment makingsewing, stitching, hemming, tailoring, dressmaking