There is a small garment-assembly sector.
Settling in New Jersey, they went to work in Chinatown, opening a small garment factory.
Small garment factories have proliferated throughout the slum, making children's clothes or women's dresses for the Indian market or export abroad.
It took 289 days, 6 hours a day, to get through the legal paperwork required to open a small garment business in Lima.
Over the last two years, 100 Chinese immigrants toiling in a small garment factory in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn produced as many as 30,000 pieces of girls' sportswear a week for a Manhattan-based clothes manufacturer, workers said.
David Levine was born on Dec. 20, 1926, in Brooklyn, where his father, Harry, ran a small garment shop and his mother, Lena, a nurse, was a political activist with Communist sympathies.
"We think he really can change things, so that people have the right to decide," said Aide Florentino, 27, a member of a small garment cooperative in the rural southern part of Mexico City.
While Leicester's giant red brick spinning mills might have fallen silent, they have been replaced by the noise of thousands sewing machines whirring across a network of small garment factories and workshops that criss-cross the city.
Although this pocket of Midtown Manhattan — which is roughly bounded by 34th and 42nd Streets and Fifth and Ninth Avenues — is still dotted with small garment factories and showrooms, recent zoning changes have allowed more residential and commercial construction on its fringes.
Indisputably true, although many a small garment firm probably doesn't see it that way.
