Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
The readymade garment industry in Bengaluru goes back over four decades and in the seventies was recognised as the readymade clothing hub of South India. Garment factories mushroomed all over the city due to the easy availability of lower middle class workers in both urban and rural Bengaluru. Until this time there was no concept of a garment industry as textile merchants delivered material to tailors in their houses to get them stitched.
