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The garment factory is driven by a desire to create special pieces for that exceptional woman who loves life and insists on looking spectacular while navigating her way through its unexpected demands.

Our philosophy is to create clothes that make you feel bold and beautiful without sacrificing ease of life and comfort.

Since the collapse, inspections at 1,600 garment factories under the Accord revealed more than 130,000 safety problems, including electrical and structural integrity issues and a lack of safe fire exits, Oldenziel said. So far, 85 percent of those issues have been resolved. Inspectors ordered the temporary evacuation of 50 factories because of serious structural concerns, he added.

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The workers were drowned or electrocuted after a flood caused a short circuit. Seventeen others were injured. The facility operated in an underground garage in a residential area with 130 workers, most of them women. A nearby resident rescued some of the workers by throwing a rope into the flooded factory.

The April 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, the worst in a string of deadly building collapses and fires that killed more than 1,100 garment factory workers in Bangladesh, prompted efforts to make factories safer and to protect worker rights. While the industry poses risks to workers and much improvement is still needed, a new study finds that garment factory work reshapes the lives of women in Bangladesh in positive ways.

Bangladeshi women with access to garment factory jobs are able to avoid early marriage and childbirth and stay in school, according to the study, to be published in the Journal of Development Economics.

Marriage and childbirth drops sharply for girls aged 12 to 18 who have access to garment factory jobs. Girls who live near a garment factory are 28% less likely to be married and 29% less likely to have given birth than those living in villages farther away from a factory.

The study findings indicate that the delays in marriage and childbirth likely stem from younger girls staying in school longer to obtain the literacy and math skills required to get a garment factory job once they are old enough to work, and young women postponing marriage to work outside of the home.

Girls who live near a factory have an extra 1.5 years of education relative to their brothers, with the strongest effects observed at young ages. Girls and young women who are exposed to factory jobs when they are between 10 and 23 years old, a critical age group at risk for early marriage, are 17 percentage points more likely to work outside of the home before marriage, a 79% increase over those without access to factory jobs.

Methods: 1058 randomly selected female garment factory workers employed in the free trade zone of Kogalla, Sri Lanka were recruited to complete two interviewer-administered questionnaires assessing musculoskeletal symptoms and health behaviors.

Discussion: Musculoskeletal complaints among female garment workers in the FTZ of Kogalla are less common than expected. Sociocultural factors may have resulted in underreporting and similarly contribute to the low rates of healthcare utilization by these women.

I have been talking about sustainability in the fashion industry for what feels like a long time, but I felt I needed to see the root of the issues for myself. Finally, the opportunity came along when I had the chance to visit a garment factory in India. The experience left me feeling more inspired than ever on my journey towards finding solutions for a more sustainable fashion industry.

My journey began in Mumbai, where I happened to meet just the right person. After sharing our mutual passions for sustainability in the fashion industry, they introduced me to a social compliance officer. They then agreed to meet me in Bangalore, to discuss their work assuring social compliance within garment factories (this includes ensuring standards for working conditions inside the factory are met).

Entering the building I passed through security and realised I was inside a factory compound. I sat and waited in a black marbled reception area. Soon enough I was greeted by the face I had hoped to meet, and we continued to an office room. We discussed the social compliance issues when it comes to quality checking factories in India, and considered how my own entrepreneurial ideas would make realistic sense. I was told we were actually sitting underneath a garment factory, and there was another surrounding us in the same compound. My curiosity just had to make me ask to see it for myself!

First, textiles that arrived in the factory were washed in large industrial machines operated by men. In this factory, they were encouraged to wash in the most efficient way possible to reduce water usage (Take note, this factory was ranked quite highly in terms of social compliance). Next, this huge amount of textiles were dried and treated.

Initially, I felt proud, that I had actually travelled this far to learn more about where my clothing really comes from. I felt even more motivated than ever before, to continue on my mission to exploring the sustainability issues of the fashion industry. I was inspired by the hard working attitude of the factory workers. I was also surprised by the number of people and processes involved. Our clothing and the people who make our clothing have amazing stories to tell, and I want to hear more!

WMSDs are debilitating in nature and impact an employee's performance substantially. Poor employee performance leads to financial loss for the organization and thereby puts job security at stake. Hence, early detection and amelioration of WMSD among garment factory workers would prove to be fruitful in the long run.

As observed by Saha, even in this study it was found that there was no provision of pre-placement examination, periodic health screening.[20] Being an unorganized sector, the well-being of the garment factory workers are often at the mercy of the factory owners. They are under immense pressure to perform under stressful and hazardous working conditions, especially during the increased market demands of festive seasons. The workers are thus caught in a vicious cycle of poor socioeconomic status, unhealthy working conditions, and poor health status with no provision of targeted health care.

Rana Plaza, the collapsed eight-story commercial building located in Dhaka's outskirt Savar, which housed several shops, a bank and garment factories, is the painful symbol of the grave tragedy encountered by garment workers.

On 23 April 2013 large structural cracks were discovered in the Rana Plaza building. The shops and the bank on the lower floors immediately closed. But warnings to avoid using the building after the cracks appeared were ignored by the garment factory owners on the upper floors.

Garment workers were ordered to return to work the following day. Due to management pressure, on Wednesday 24 April thousands of workers went to work again at their garment factories located in the cracked Rana Plaza building.

With our partners in Bangladesh we identified at least 29 global brands that had recent or current orders with at least one of the five garment factories in the Rana Plaza building, including Benetton (Italy), Bonmarche (UK), Cato Fashions (USA), The Children's Place (USA), El Corte Ingles (Spain), Joe Fresh (Loblaws, Canada), Kik (Germany), Mango (Spain), Matalan (UK), Primark (UK/Ireland) and Texman (Denmark).

Background

As urban planning develops in Beijing, urban renewal gradually spreads from the center to the suburban Beizhuang Town. The project site was originally a garment manufacturing factory covering an area of 5,000 sqm in Beizhuang Town. We have retained the original layout of factory buildings, and renovated it into a youth activity center which is comprised of youth education camps along with classroom, restaurant, conference room, and accommodations. The site is divided into two courtyards. The northern one is featured by a large one-story single-span factory building with a bent structure. In the southern one there are small red brick buildings with timber trusses and brick bearing walls. Considering the structural characteristics of the original fabrics, we concentrated the education camps, conference rooms and restaurants in the northern area, and accommodations in the southern one.

The Youth Activity Center in the North District

The northern most original brick and reinforced concrete building on the site had few openings, resulting in poor lighting, which did not meet the requirements for contemporary use. Therefore, we removed the original building in the north and placed a row of entrance lobby, which is a single-sided cantilevered structure in the shape of umbrella ribs. It eases the pressure of the mass of the 70-meter-long and 7-meter-high factory building on the street entrance, as well as people's experience of transition from the north square to the Youth Activity Center. The interior of the lobby is made up of seven inscribing semi-circular glass boxes, which function as the main entrance to the Youth Activity Center, the cafe area and the concept store of creative items, like continuous small settlements. We transformed a series of phenomena such as optical transparency, reflection and refraction into spatial experiences of physics. The continuous glass surface reflects the surrounding environment, making the structure lighter, and extending the view to other dimensions.

The potential of the internal space of the Youth Activity Center is explored by restructuring the relationship between the exhibition space and the exhibits, with attempts to create a sense of borderlessness for games. It is our hope to create a mixed-age environment for children aged 0-7 to play and learn together. The 7-meter clear height of the original factory space is divided into active and quiet functions according to floor levels, allowing children to enjoy physical games in a circular circulation on the ground floor. At the end of the mezzanine is set up an area for longer activities of creative and intellectual games and teaching. In order to enable children to interact with the space during their activities, we have taken the landscape staircase as the central stage in the layout of the exhibition items, and arranged the steel ramp and the curved staircase along the longitudinal direction of the factory space. The design has made good use of the gap at the bottom of the staircase and created a three-dimensional gaming area with a slide, where a free path brings out the possibility of various sports. For the partition of the exhibition items, free-form surfaces are used to encourage expansion and interaction between the body and the space. The curved mesh wall and the net across different floors allow children to crawl among the gaps. e24fc04721