Reflections on Retooling for the Covid‑19 Pandemic

Nichola Lowe & Tara Vinodrai — 2020-06-19T06:00:00Z

Factories are adapting to the new conditions and needs the coronavirus has introduced by retooling production lines and repurposing knowledge and technology to manufacture essential items for Covid‑19 management. Nichola Lowe and Tara Vinodrai assess the nature and scale of these retooling efforts and argue that institutions can support manufacturing in ways that respond to crises and support economic regeneration.
Factories in cities and communities around the world are retooling production

- Essays / manufacturing, Covid-19, coronavirus, industry, textile industry, North Carolina, South Carolina, United States, North America, start-ups, pandemic

Paving the Silk Road: Rethinking Ethnic Solidarity in Los Angeles' Korean Garment District

Angie Y. Chung & Sookhee Oh — 2018-06-19T05:00:00Z

In this piece on Koreans in Los Angeles' garment industry, sociologists Angie Chung and Sookhee Oh discuss the external factors that influence ethnic solidarity. In doing so, they treat as fluid and changing a category often taken for granted as stable and fixed.
In April 2017, the news broke that Forever 21, a fast-growing clothing retailer, was under federal investigation for using factory sweatshops to manufacture its trendy clothing lines. The company is owned by one of the most

- From the Field / Los Angeles, Koreatown, social networks, ethnic solidarity, Los Angeles Fashion District, clothing manufacture, textile industry, apparel industry

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Reflections on Retooling for the Covid‑19 Pandemic

Paving the Silk Road: Rethinking Ethnic Solidarity in Los Angeles' Korean Garment District