Indian Apparel Industry- an Overview

Throughout the late 1800s to the early 1900s, both japan and India saw a rise in the use of machines in the textile industry. Both showed similar recruitment techniques, but were not so similar in who the workers were and their working conditions.

The high demand for clothing meant that the textile industry had to increase production. Its output increased from 40 million to 2 billion in 65

The introductory of the documentary examines the fabric mills of Bangladesh. It is very competitive in the international market place to find low cost labor; when merchandise manufactured in another country is imported these country put on a duty rate. Apparel companies contemplating low cost labor,

So during imperialism the British wanted to colonize india because of it’s manufacturing and raw materials that they produce. This new industrial system was highly successful; resulting a tremendous increase in the number of goods that individual worker could produce (Connolly). For example, before the Industrial Revolution, textiles were primarily made of wool and were hand spun. But, with the invention of the spinning wheel and the loom, cloth was produced quicker and eventually replaced wool in the textile field” ("thomasnet). Between 1770 and 1790 the production of cotton increase in Great Britain (textbook pg,286). By 1800, the manufacture of cotton cloth bag becomes the nation’s single most important industry. However, with materials now being produced quicker and cheaper the need for manufactured goods was greater than the supply. In order to meet the demand many manufactures hired children to work in their factories, It has been estimated that a million of children between the ages of five and seventeen worked as a child laborers in the UK during the Industrial Revolution. Although children had been servants and apprentices

Cotton was to transform ordinary women's dresses”. Elizabeth Ewing (1984). Everyday Dress 1650-1900. USA : Chelsea House Publishers. 56. Cotton was a source of material that was used during the making of dresses on machinery during the start of the Industrial Revolution. The machinery used were spinners to process the weaving of the material as this was a faster way for the workers, who were known as the weavers. It was a huge element needed in British history for the development of dresses to become greater then what they were.

According to the Oxford Dictionary; textiles is a “ type of cloth or woven fabric.” Everyone wears some form of textiles, which is why the textiles industry is quite large.

The textile industry has undergone enormous change in the past ten years. Global trade in textiles was once regulated by high tariffs and a complex system of import quotes. Not anymore. Textiles used to be produced predominantly in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Not anymore. Textile mills used to dictate fashion, everything from fabric construction to fiber content. Not anymore.

* We are doing this report so that we can analysis the readymade garment (RMG) sector of Bangladesh and find out the problems and remedies of this sector.

The American textile industry has been around for as long as the country has been in existence. In the beginning, most textile and apparel items were created by artisans, who worked mainly in their homes. In the 18th century, the country was hit with the industrial revolution which brought many changes to the textile industry. The local artisans were replaced by textile industries and manufactures. With the invention of the spinning jenny, spinning frame, water frame and power loom, the textile industry was revolutionized. Later, with the use of electrical power, these inventions were made more efficient. Fabric production was mechanized with machines powered by waterwheels and steam engines. Production was shifting from the small cottage based production into a mass production in various factories. (Kunz) Sewing machines were emerging in the 19th century which further streamlined clothing production. During the post

The main industry that really flourished and dominated the factory setting was the textile industry especially in terms of employment, sales of product, and the use of newer production methods.

The garment industry has played a pioneering role in the development of industrial sector of Bangladesh. Though it took a rather late start i.e., in 1976 but it soon established its reputation in the world market within a short span of time. Resultantly garment is now one of the main export items of the country. Besides, enriching the country's economy it has played a very important role in alleviating unemployment. At present there are more than two thousand one hundred garment factories in the country employing more than 12 lack labors. 85 percent of the labor force is women.

Apparel industry in Sri Lanka has become one of the most important contributors to Sri Lanka’s GDP. In fact, the industry has grown enormously well during the past 3 decades bring opportunities for locals, internationals, and organizations. Moreover, Sri Lanka apparel industry has definitely helped the country’s development in numerous ways.

The textile industry, which came to make up the majority of Britain’s factory system, was going through a period of substantial change. The pre-industrial cloth industry, consisting mainly of wool, was organized on the domestic system by using hand-powered machinery. By 1850, this system was giving way to steam power and the factory system, and the primacy of wool was replaced with the primacy of cotton . The invention of James Hargreaves’ ‘Spinning Jenny’ and Richard Arkwright’s ‘Water Frame’ had already revolutionized the textile industry, however, the development of the ‘Mule’, so-called because it was a cross between the Jenny and Water Frame, by Samuel Crompton, led to the rapid establishment of many cotton mills. The ‘Mule’, which incorporated the steam engine to increase its output, would produce seven times as much cloth as hand operated looms. This led many employers rushing to replace male hand weavers with machines, as noted by Richard Guest in his 1823 publication Compendium History of Cotton-Manufacture: ‘the same

According to the data, the total volume of textiles exported from China has started a continuous rapid growth since 2001 (the year of China’s accession to the WTO) as shown in the first graph above, which roughly

The cost is kept low with labor and the production. This helps competing in the export trading world. “I am telling, in textile nobody can beat Bangladesh in price and quality”