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Rag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A rag is a piece of old cloth used to clean or wipe things. The word rag is slang for a newspaper or magazine that targets an uneducated audience. Rags is the name of a Broadway musical by Stephen Schwartz and Charles Strouse. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rag   (177 words)

MSN Encarta - Search Results - Rag Trade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Rag Trade, racehorse, winner of the 1976 Grand National. Rag Trade won the race at his second attempt, having finished tenth in 1975. Trade Union, association of workers established to improve their economic and social conditions. uk.encarta.msn.com /Rag_Trade.html   (77 words)

Sustainable Trade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Various trade organizations have been developed, to aid the liberalization of global trade, and gradually, cognisance has been taken of issues such as the trade impacts on environment, or labour standards. Multi Fibre Agreement is a case in point of trade rules that have restricted the market access of developing nations in order to protect the economies of the developed world, in wide variance to the principles of the GATT. Trade negotiations have begun to develop mechanisms to ensure the inclusion of certain levels of environmental performance in trading countries. www.emcentre.com /textile/LT_issues.htm   (725 words)

The Rag Trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Rag Trade is a British television sitcom transmitted by the BBC between 1961 and 1963. Other major cast members in the series included Sheila Hancock (as Carole), Esma Cannon (as Little Lil), Wanda Ventham (as Shirley) and Barbara Windsor (as Judy). The Rag Trade was later revived, without success, by ITV in 1977. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Rag_Trade   (150 words)

The Rag Trade These folk are in what we call the rag trade, a tough business in any language. October 15 is a big date on their calendar, the start of the Guangzhou Trade Fair, when buyers from all over the world come to pick through the mass of small clothing stands looking for that magic combination of fashion and price that will make them a buck in the emporiums of the West. I ran them ragged, made them model the rhythms of speech, got them in pairs, paraded them in a make-believe sales stand with their samples... members.fortunecity.com /thormay/chinadiary/ragtrade.html   (3705 words)

May 2000, The second public report on the independent monitoring pilot project with Liz Claiborne The challenge now facing the 'rag trade' is whether its largely defensive efforts to minimise social and environmental risk can be transformed into a coordi-nated strategy for the sustainable development of the supply chain: improving performance, sharing benefits and broadening accountability. The rag trade is fiercely individualistic and the UK's leading retailers are responding to these pressures in a range of different ways (Chapter 4). The rag trade has seen a flurry of activity in recent years as companies act to install basic systems to give assurance on social and environmental performance in the supply chain. www.cleanclothes.org /codes/monrep.htm   (1613 words)

Rag Trade Recruitment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Many of the qualifications, skills and training courses provided by the fashion sector can be readily ‘cross credited’ to textiles, thus expanding the pool of candidates. Rag trade Recruitment has seen incredible changes in the technical requirements of employers due to market changes and has encouraged and supported candidates in their career paths. We are seeing amazing candidates coming through from the technical institutes and universities who have majored in wool, textiles, dying techniques and fibre composition ready to get in there and role up their sleeves and not one of them has an aspiration towards becoming a ‘fashion designer’. www.ragtrade.co.nz /immigration.asp?ID=28   (523 words)

Baltimore City Paper: NEWS Once the City's Largest Industry, Baltimore's Rag Trade is Stitched Into a Corner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) In the postwar years, Baltimore's umbrella industry was perhaps the first needle trade to be drubbed out of existence by the flood of cheap imports. Long before either of these fashion flip-flops, one of the mainstays of the city's needle trades, the straw-hat industry, came crashing down: May 15--the traditional "straw-hat day," when men would put away their felt hats and take up straw ones--stopped being acknowledged back in the '30s. Like many in the Baltimore rag trade, G & G Uniforms is in a holding pattern. www.citypaper.com /1998-10-07/feature.html   (4535 words)

A stitch in time. Experiences in the rag trade In this article, Betty Reilly is frank and regretful about the role played by the CPA in opposing the spontaneous militancy of the super-exploited, mainly women, textile workers fighting for equal pay at that time. Heagney, a one-time member of the CPA, was dismissed as a Trotskyite who didn't understand the importance of opposing such demands in the interests of the war effort. However, by the time the textile industry was transplanted from the Old Dart to Australia, trade union action and factory legislation had largely curtailed these cruel excesses and the eight-hour day had been legalised. members.optusnet.com.au /spainter/BReilly.html   (3022 words)

US and China reach rag trade deal - Breaking News - World - Breaking News US Trade Representative Rob Portman and Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai announced a deal that covers over 30 clothing categories including socks, T-shirts and bras at a joint news conference in London. Both sides hailed the accord as a success but China warned that free trade in textiles was inevitable. The accord is aimed at smoothing over a rough spot in the US-China trade relationship before President George W Bush visits Beijing in the middle of this month. www.theage.com.au /news/World/US-and-China-reach-rag-trade-deal/2005/11/09/1131407660641.html   (435 words)

Dirt Rag Forums - trade me   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) i really want to trade my 03 sid team for an ss frame. i will sell or trade all the stuff on the ad including the fork. If it's a small one, I have some interesting trades. www.dirtragmag.com /forums/printthread.php?t=567   (161 words)

Rag trade baron who has never owned a restaurant buys The Ivy for £21m Rag trade baron who has never owned a restaurant buys The Ivy for £21m While not quite as exclusive as The Ivy, where less famous customers have to book months in advance to secure a table, the other restaurants in the group also bear illustrious names, such as Le Caprice, J Sheekey, Daphne's, Pasha and Bam-Bou. If Mr Caring does not have the experience of the restaurant trade possessed by the departing owner, the Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson, he is familiar with the luxurious lifestyle enjoyed by many of The Ivy's customers. www.ezilon.com /information/article_5322.shtml   (882 words)

Chill Magazine: The RAG Trade - Rent a Goalie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) The genesis of the RAG trade is a case in point. Today, in 2003, both competitor and flagship company still stand, dominating the RAG market together, with a mellower Cardy filling over 300 orders a month during the "winter" season  (September to April), and 100 orders in the off-season. That said, it's prudent to bear in mind that the prime factor in a lot of things rental goalies will tell you is the character of rental goalies themselves.  It's possible to discover a sense of reality among RAGs, but it's also fairly rare. www.thebeerstore.ca /chill/Issue2/issue2-features-ragtrade.html   (1999 words)

IOL: Californian deal could save Cape rag trade The California Foreign Trade Office and the Enterprise Florida office would also be involved in the big economic injection. At present all exports are channelled through the National Clothing Export Council of the Minister for Trade and Industry, Alec Erwin. Rag trade workers win pay battle after axings www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?sf=594&click_id=13&art_id=ct20010626112507747L300397&set_id=1   (658 words)

VisualStore | American Rag The line is licensed under an agreement with American Rag, the retailer that operates three such vintage-wear shops in California. Macy's American Rag concept shop is designed for a thrift shop, "anti-department store" mentality, with vintage fixturing and merchandise appearing to be strewn around.Ricky Zehavi, Brooklyn, N.Y. Merchandising is intentionally unregimented, densely laid out or casually hung, without traditional presentation by color, size or style. The pilot American Rag program was in the junior's and young men's departments of more than 100 Macy's stores. www.visualstore.com /index.php/channel/37/id/7778   (791 words)

MULTINATIONALS - The rag trade goes South Up and down the dusty road, the skeletons of long, windowless factories are starting to take shape behind barbed wire fences and concrete walls. Near the city centre, at the Federation of National Workers of Honduras, union activist Maria Esperanza Rey is talking to three young women from the Korean-owned company Wonchang Industriales, one of the dozens of new foreign-owned factories scattered around the town. In El Salvador, where foreign investment has jumped since the end of the civil war, the big drawing card of late is a fast-sinking wage rate. www.newint.org /issue246/rag.htm   (1334 words)

Dirt Rag Forums - Trade me Cyclocross Frames I'd like to have a Cross-check frame and fork in 54, any color, any year, as long as it is not beat. The C-dale just is not me. I own steel bikes other than this, and I would like the option of running SS/fixed. I might be interested in such a trade. www.dirtragmag.com /forums/showthread.php?t=7560&goto=newpost   (329 words)

BBC - Comedy Guide - The Rag Trade For, unusually, this was a show predominantly populated by strong-of-character working women and was set in a working-class environment, well away from the cosy middle-class, male-dominated domesticity of other British sitcoms of the period. A stage version of The Rag Trade (with most of the TV cast) ran at the Piccadilly Theatre in London from December 1962 to February 1963 but did not do well, a flop only partly explained by that winter's particularly savage weather. Undeterred, around the same period, Wolfe and Chesney sensed the time might be right for a British revival of their creation and took the idea back to the BBC. www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/r/ragtradethe_7775315.shtml   (514 words)

Lansing State Journal:Rag trade culture fading   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) The garment industry has long been New York City's largest manufacturing employer, and it still is. But the number of workers has fallen from more than 300,000 in the 1950s to 33,500 this June, and the decline shows no sign of slowing. Employment fell 21 percent in the last year alone, as Chinatown factories that failed after the World Trade Center attack added to the decline. But many expect domestic manufacturing to decline further after December 2004, when trade agreements will allow more imports from China. www.lsj.com /news/business/031008_ragtrade_7c.html   (836 words)

Weekend Standard - Rag trade raga Overall, veterans of India's rag trade view 2005 as a year of mixed blessings. As partners in the country's coalition government, they are determined to block any reforms that involve relaxing restrictions on lay-offs. It needs to be more stringent,'' says Meenakshi Sundaram, General Secretary for the Bangalore District Committee of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions, which is affiliated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist). www.thestandard.com.hk /stdn/std/Weekend/GE21Jp02.html   (1785 words)

Shedding light on the rag trade - Sewing Seeds: Clothing Workers Fight For Better Conditions - CBC Archives Garment workers in Canada's 1930s rag trade or schmatte industry worked under deplorable conditions, in dimly lit factories where regulated hours were unheard of. Refusing to put in overtime meant you were out of a job, which was devastating to families already impoverished by the Great Depression. For example, in 1909 all but one pant shop was in Jewish hands, and there were 15,000 Jewish people in the rag trade. archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-69-1438-9450/life_society/textile_unions/clip1   (453 words)

Eye - The rag trade-off - 06.03.99 The trade dispute between Canada and the U.S. over magazine publishing has drawn to an end, or at least an intermission. The Canadian negotiators conceded this by including in the trade agreement the right to pay subsidies to Canadian publishers. The payments, which could reach as high as $100 million a year, were correctly described as "welfare" by one publisher. www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_06.03.99/news/media.html   (827 words)

APPAREL / Hands-On Fashion / Making a living in San Francisco's cut- and-sew rag trade MAC (Modern Appealing Clothing), a supporter of local fashion for 23 years, just moved its men's and women's stores to a brand-new 3,000-foot space on Grove Street, and 1-year-old RAG (Residents Apparel Gallery), which carries small local designers, will be expanding this year. They debuted it at Magic, the huge Las Vegas trade show, where their booth was hidden behind Rampage's. RAG (Residents Apparel Gallery): Buka, Victoria Allen, Deanna Bratt. sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/22/CMGQ6524UI3.DTL   (3445 words)

Hindsight - 3/06/01: The rag trade They’re just some of the fashion giants that grew out of the rag trade, or schmatte business, as it's known within the Jewish community. The post-war schmatte trade, many of whose pioneers were Holocaust survivors, flourished in the busy back lanes of Sydney and Melbourne (most particularly off Flinders St), churning out the glamourous gear of Australia’s fashion leaders. In this week's Hindsight, some of the people behind our finest fashion houses talk to Hindsight’s Dai Le about the world of fabulous frocks -- but from the perspective of long hours, technological revolution and the the endless ebb and flow of the economy. www.abc.net.au /rn/history/hindsight/stories/s309972.htm   (136 words)

Rag Trade Trimmings Ltd - London - All Industry -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Rag Trade Trimmings Ltd - London - All Industry - The number of times that this company page has been viewed can be seen on the results page for Rag Trade Trimmings Ltd. The number of page impressions and therefore the number of users reaching a company page can be improved by advertising in Applegate. www.applegate.co.uk /company/coz/1177582.htm   (193 words)

icNorthWales - Rag trade forging links with Lithuania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Twenty representatives of firms in Vilnius and other centres in Lithuania were invited over to the event at Ruthin Castle by the Welsh Clothing and Textile Association. He said those companies that did attend were able to take advantage of low cost production facilities on offer by firms in the Baltic state and to initiate other business links between the two countries. "There will be follow-up trade opportunities and the Welsh association has been invited over to Lithuania in September," said Mr Williams. icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk /business/businessnews/tm_objectid=15295448&method=full&siteid=50142&headline=rag-trade-forging-links-with-lithuania-name_page.html   (191 words)

Amazon.com: Unravelling the Rag Trade : Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Seven World Cities: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Travel the global cities with the contributors to this book, and one sees why: drawing on the insights of historians, sociologists, and anthropologists, Unravelling the Rag Trade shows how markets, politics, and migration ensure that clothing is still made in the advanced, post-industrial West. Richly detailed and theoretically refined, it exemplifies what can be accomplished through the use of high-quality international comparison. "Unravelling the Rag Trade provides a coherent account of an industry in constant flux...this book presents a tightly integrated theoretical and empirical exposition of a key global industry, and in the process advances our understanding of immigrant entrepeneurship as well." --Environment and Planning www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1859734189?v=glance   (695 words)

Rag Trade Recruitment There was a Myth that Retail was the Bottom of the Barrel when it comes to planning a successful career, At Rag Trade Recruitment we are very pleased to help destroy this myth and re-educate people about the career path and opportunities in retail — in particular our area of expertise — Retail Fashion. In the past retail has not been seen as a skilled profession and something you do in between university or tech until you get a ‘real job’. www.ragtrade.co.nz /immigration.asp?ID=26   (537 words)

Becoming suitable: Self-fashioning and the rag trade in American literature, 1865-1925 Becoming suitable: Self-fashioning and the rag trade in American literature, 1865-1925 of Pennsylvania - Electronic Dissertations > Becoming suitable: Self-fashioning and the rag trade in American literature, 1865-1925 The final chapter takes a new look at the role of immigrant realism through the fiction of Anzia Yezierska, identifying Yezierska's oppositional deployment of the 'rags-to-riches' tradition as a form of hybridized resistance. repository.upenn.edu /dissertations/AAI9727307   (237 words)

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