Already reeling because India's garment manufacturing industry was included on the US Department of Labor's updated EO 13126 list, the country's apparel exporters suffered another blow last week when ...

Georgina Briers is struggling. It is late in the evening, but the 20-year-old is hunched over a dilapidated sewing machine in a New Delhi workshop, unsuccessfully trying to stitch a seam in a garment.

The World Bank has an interesting new report out suggesting that India and other south Asian countries (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and so on) should be welcoming the textiles industry with open arms. Yes, ...

Under the slogan “Make in India,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a high-profile campaign to drum up foreign investment, particularly in the manufacturing sector, promoting India as a ...

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Gap Inc. has been forced to disavow a sweatshop in India that employed young children in reportedly miserable working conditions. Back To Top ...

A review of Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory, by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every day, after she finishes cooking, cleaning and fetching water for her tiny one-room home in India's financial capital Mumbai, Saubhagya Nadelkari picks up a ...

Even as the government aggressively pitches for foreign and local investments into India's manufacturing sector through its Make-in-India programme, business leaders warn that this hard selling ...

On Oct. 28, a MarketWatch report on clothing retailer Gap Inc. GPS incorrectly gave the ticker symbol as "GAP." The correct ticker symbol is "GPS." See corrected story. Back To Top ...