Since the 1970s, industrial production has been outsourced from developed countries to parts of the developing world where labor was found to be significantly cheaper and more ‘flexible'. This phenomenon was accompanied by a rise in the female intensiveness of the workforce, in a process...

The circular economy model enables businesses to incorporate regenerative manufacturing systems that use closed-loop resources to achieve economic and environmental sustainability. The work focuses on the circular economy’s competitive advantage from the multinationals apparel industry’s...