Search

Summary: In the tradition of people's history, the following is a hypothetical reconstruction of the life of a textile worker from Final‐palatial Knossos (c.1375–1050 BC). This reconstruction is built upon a broad array of archaeological, philological, ceramic, ethnographic, palaeobotanical and osteological studies. Although hypothetical, this data‐based, multidisciplinary reconstruction is offered as one way to get at lived experience of the non‐elite, and specifically of women, something presently lacking in the field of Aegean Prehistory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study was conducted to explore the influence of green human resource practices on employees' voluntary pro‐environmental behavior through the sequential mediation path of green organizational climate and organizational identity. A total of 459 employees from the textile industry in Pakistan participated in the study. The results were collected using two sources (managers and employees) at two time points. The proposed research model of the study was tested using structural equation modeling. The results validated the significant positive relationship between green organizational climate and organizational identity. We also found support for the serial mediation of green organizational climate and organizational identity in the green human resource management–voluntary pro‐environmental behavior relationship. All the hypotheses were significant. Overall, this study explains why and how green human resource management practices lead to voluntary pro‐environmental behavior. The implications for theory and practices that will enable organizations to encourage voluntary pro‐environmental behavior among their employees are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inclusive leadership (IL) can enhance performance and vigor at work. Through the perspective of affective events theory and social exchange theory, this research investigates the relationships between IL and adaptive performance (AP) with the mediating role of vigor at work (VW) and the moderating role of internal locus of control (ILC). Data were collected in three time lags from employees and their supervisors in the textile industry of Pakistan. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to determine the distinctiveness of study variables. The results established that IL enhanced adaptive performance, while vigor at work mediated the relationship between IL and adaptive performance. This study contributes to the leadership literature since limited attention was paid to the role of IL as a predictor of adaptive performance indirectly through vigor at work and ILC at the workplace. Implications of the study are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Conventional methods of measuring historical household living standards are often criticized because of the omission of women's and children's wages and non‐wage income; the focus on urban centres; and the exclusion of life‐cycle changes in household composition, income, and consumption. This article presents a method that accounts for these issues and applies it to agricultural and textile households in the early‐twentieth century Netherlands. It uses total household income, as opposed to the husband's wage, as the enumerator for calculating alternative welfare ratios. The results show that welfare ratios were not only structurally higher than those based on the male‐breadwinner model, but also followed a different life‐cycle trajectory. Furthermore, household portfolios were diversified and depended on local labour market structures. Thus, the study concludes that analyses based on men's wages only reflect the rough outlines of how households functioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Occupational injuries are occurrences arising out of, or in the course of, work which results in a fatal or nonfatal injury, e.g., a fall from a height or contact with moving machines. They pose psychological, behavioral, social, vocational, and economic problems. No previous studies have been conducted on the prevalence and associated risk factors of occupational injuries among workers in Bahir Dar Textile Share Company (SC). Therefore, this study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated risk factors of occupational injury in Bahir Dar Textile SC, Northwest Ethiopia.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among employees of Bahir Dar Textile SC in 2019. Three hundred (195 males and 105 females) employees were selected using proportional simple random sampling from the spinning, weaving, finishing, engineering, and administration sections.Results: The one-year and the two-week occupational injury prevalences were 42.7% and 6.7%, respectively. The one-year report from all the respondents shows that abrasion (10.7%) and eye injury (7.7%) were the two top injuries, hands (12.7%) and eyes (7.7%) were the top injured body parts, and machines (22.7%) and falling/slipping (6.3%) caused most injuries. Statistically significant differences in injuries (p < 0.05) were observed due to variations in gender, job category, exposure to vibration, exposure to rays/welding sparks, and labor-intensive work. The weaving section was positively associated with occupational injuries at AOR = 4.497 and p=0.05.Conclusions: Occupational injuries prevalence is high over the last year. The major causes of injuries were machines and falling/slipping, while the major injuries were abrasions, eye injuries, sprains, and burns. The factors significantly associated with occupational injuries were male gender, job category, use of vibrating tools, high intensive work, and rays/welding sparks. Occupational safety and health training, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), and shifting employees from intensive works are recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study has been undertaken to analyze the total accumulated burden of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in blood of occupationally exposed workers. The headspace technique combined with gas chromatography with flame ionization detector was used for the quantitative analysis of the different volatile organic compounds (isopropyl alcohol, phenol, benzene, dichloromethane, ethanol, ethyl acetate, and toluene) in 80 blood samples from the workers belonging to different occupations i.e., shoe polish workers, thinner handlers, paint workers, furniture polish workers, petrol station attendants, textile dyeing workers, printing press workers, and dry port workers as biomonitoring is one of the most promising methods for analyzing the individual burden of VOCs. Another purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between detected concentrations of VOCs and associated health issues reported by the workers of these professions. Results of the study revealed the presence of different VOCs in blood samples of approximately 70 workers out of 80, and statistical analysis proved a strong relationship between the reported work experience, working hours, and diseases and the detected concentrations of respective volatile organic compounds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Buenos Aires' talleres clandestinos (clandestine textile workshops) are powerful sites of accumulation and resistance; a complex and communitarian migrant economy. The economy's complexity is, however, masked by its spatiality, clandestinity, and the promotion of culturalist analyses that ignore intra‐collective class differentials. This paper considers the "autonomy of migration" approach through the lens of "class composition" to explore the talleres' contours. Witnessed in the talleres is a clear "multiplication of labour", yet approaching this multiplication compositionally highlights the multiple examples of resistance and refusal immanent to the workshop economy. But this dialectic of control and resistance transcends the workplace, with the talleres one node in a wider, socially reproductive borderscape. By developing a framework that neither condemns nor celebrates economic structures like the talleres, but instead unpacks their antagonistic nature, the paper highlights the benefits of (a) analysing the autonomy of migration approach compositionally, and (b) further geographical engagement with autonomist thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Long-term and continuous noise exposure can result in noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL), which is a worldwide problem resulting from the interaction of environmental and genetic factors. The ATP2B2 gene polymorphism can destroy cochlear hair cells and increase the risk of NIHL. A case-control study of 760 Chinese textile workers was conducted to investigate the relationship between ATP2B2 polymorphisms and NIHL susceptibility. Venous blood was collected and questionnaires were conducted by professional physicians. A case group and a control group which were typed by individuals' pure-tone audiometry test results were set. Three polymorphism sites of ATP2B2 were genotyped by using the PCR technique. Analysis results revealed that the C allele of rs3209637 (95%CI=1.08–2.58, odds ratio OR=1.67, P=0.027) was a dangerous factor and could add to risks of NIHL in the Chinese employees. The data of stratified analysis revealed that individuals who are exposed to noise>95 dB with the rs3209637 C genotype have a higher susceptibility to NIHL (OR=1.34, 95%CI=1.07–1.68). Multifactor dimensionality reduction analysis revealed that the interaction between rs14154 and rs3209637 is linked to increased NIHL risk, and for the interaction among rs14154, smoking and drinking had the same function (OR=1.54 and 1.77, 95%CI=1.15–2.07, 1.33–2.37, and P=0.0037 and P<0.0001, respectively). Our results suggest that genetic polymorphism rs3209637 C within ATP2B2 is a risk factor for NIHL among Chinese employees and rs3209637 C could be a potential biomarker for NIHL patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Endotoxin, a contaminant of cotton dust, is an experimental model for parkinsonism (PS). Methods: We investigated associations between exposures to endotoxin, solvents, magnetic fields, and night shift work, and neurologist‐determined PS among Shanghai women textile workers, including 537 retired cotton factory workers ages ≥50 years and an age‐matched reference group of 286 retired textile workers not exposed to cotton dust. Repeat exams were conducted 2.5 years after enrollment among 467 cotton workers and 229 reference workers. Results: We identified 39 prevalent PS cases and 784 non‐cases. No consistent or statistically significant associations were observed for endotoxin, solvents, magnetic fields, or shift work with PS risk, severity, or progression. Conclusions: Despite the null findings, additional studies of endotoxin exposure and risk of PS in other well‐characterized occupational cohorts are warranted in view of toxicological evidence that endotoxin is a pathogenic agent and its widespread occurrence in multiple industries worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background The prevalence of occupational and non-occupational textile dermatitis seems to be increasing, probably because of changed textile manufacturing techniques. Objective Evaluation of the clinical features and epidemiology of textile contact dermatitis ( TCD) in Italy. Methods Demographic data, clinical history aspects, atopy and positive patch test reactions to occupational and non-occupational allergens were investigated in 277 textile dermatitis patients. Results Contact dermatitis was the most frequent clinical presentation (95.3%). TCD was more common in females, in the fourth to fifth decades of life, and in atopic dermatitis patients. The lesions were prevalently eczematous (74.2%), and mostly located on the trunk and lower limbs in non-occupational cases, and on the hands in textile workers. Allergic TCD (58.3%) was more frequent than irritant TCD. The dyes ( Disperse Blue 124, Disperse Blue 106, and Disperse Yellow 3) were most frequently responsible (79.8%), especially in non-occupational TCD. Formaldehyde and resins were more important in occupational TCD. Concomitant reactions among textile dyes and/or finishing resins were observed in 50.0% of patients. Conclusions Some strategies (sensitization potential of new textile chemicals, more stable dyes, reduced levels of formaldehyde in clothing, and collaboration with textile industry and trade associations) should be adopted to decrease the TCD incidence and update the textile patch testing series. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background In a study of textile workers, the effects of occupational exposure to cotton dust-with possible exposure to aflatoxin-on levels of some liver tumor biomarkers were explored. Methods The study included 58 textile workers and 64 controls. Skin prick tests, urinary Aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) and the tumor biomarkers (alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), alpha- L-fucosidase (AFU), insulin-like growth factors (IGF-1) were measured. Results Positive reactants to Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus, and cotton dust were significantly higher in pre-spinning (14.3%, 28.6%, and 28.6%, respectively) and spinning workers (25.0%, 33.3%, and 25.0%, respectively) compared to controls (4.7%, 7.8%, and 3.1%, respectively). Urinary AFM1 was significantly higher in the pre-spinning, spinning, and weaving groups compared to controls (554.2 ± 346.2 pg/ml, 459.1 ± 781.6 pg/ml, 296.5 ± 336.5 pg/ml and 68.5 ± 136.8 pg/ml, respectively). We found a highly significant increase in levels of serum AFU in textile workers, compared to the control group. Conclusion Exposure to fungi had a significant effect on AFM1 measurements and tumor biomarkers, especially in allergic textile workers (with the exception of the arginase biomarker), though results were generally within normal limits. Am. J. Ind. Med. 56:818-824, 2013. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how processes of transformation since 1989 have affected textile workers' lives in Slovenia. I am concerned with the way in which the changes in politics and society as well as people's changed reference frames have served to redefine textile workers' perceptions of the socialist past and their current understanding of both working and broader living environments. The legacies of socialism are presented within the framework of various interpretations and perceptions of post-socialist modernity. I illustrate my points by quoting a number of interviews made with workers, retired workers and other factory staff in the first years of this decade. The article does not intend to reconstruct the socialist past, but to explore the intertwinements between the past and post-socialist present while highlighting textile workers' perspectives and experiences. With their focus on the level of everyday practices, fieldwork and oral history can help us to recognize that changes in post-socialism are not simple and unidirectional. Following such analytical orientations the article addresses macro and micro levels to reveal the various ways in which people contest or contradict, follow or oppose institutional changes. The idea is not only to add people and a case study to the larger story but to question the story itself and its one-sidedness that tells us about 'successful transition' by giving out numbers, percentages and political categorizations. The aim is to point at the inequalities such discourses produce, the power relations in which they are located and the lived realities that are hidden behind them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to estimate the workforce involved in spinning from the late sixteenth century until the eve of mechanization. In addition, the potential contribution to family earnings from spinning will be examined. Just about all of the millions of yards of woollen yarn that went into making English cloth had to be spun by women and children, but this activity has not been investigated to the extent that it deserves. Spinning was a skilled occupation where there was a great demand for the best quality product. Sources exist which make it possible to make general estimates of the amount of spinning needed in the economy, and its cost. This evidence shows that employment in spinning increased dramatically from the late seventeenth century, and continued to increase until there were probably over one million women and children employed in spinning by the mid-eighteenth century. In addition earnings increased to the extent whereby earnings from spinning could contribute over 30 per cent of household income for poorer families. This has implications for looking at trends in real wages over time, as well as for the concept of the industrious revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background It has been suggested that certain occupational exposures may play a role in breast cancer etiology. The recognition of high-risk occupations may give clues about potential mammary carcinogens in the work place. Methods We conducted a population-based case-control study in France including 1,230 breast cancer cases and 1,315 population controls with detailed information on lifetime work history. Odds ratios for women ever employed in an occupation or industry were adjusted for well-established risk factors for breast cancer. Results Adjusted odds ratios were marginally increased in some white-collar occupations, as well as in textile workers (2.4; 95% CI [0.9-6.0]), rubber and plastics product makers (1.8; 95% CI [0.9-3.5]), and in women employed for more than 10 years as nurses (1.4; 95% CI [0.9-2.1]) and as tailors/dressmakers (1.5; 95% CI [0.9-2.6]). The incidence of breast cancer was increased among women employed in the manufacture of chemicals, of non-metallic mineral products, and decreased among women in agriculture. Conclusions These findings suggest a possible role of occupational exposures in breast cancer, including night-shift work, solvents and endocrine disrupting chemicals and require further studies with detailed assessment of occupational exposures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Clark and Wolcott attribute the low productivity of Indian cotton textile workers to their preference for low work effort, and suggest that unions resisted an increase in work intensity. This article argues that low wages were due to surplus labour in agriculture. Low wages allowed the persistence of managerial inefficiencies and resulted in low productivity and work effort. It uses firm-level data from all the textile producing regions in India to examine the relationship between unions and labour productivity. The findings show that fewer workers were employed per machine in the unionized mills in Bombay and Ahmedabad, compared to the mills in less unionized regions. These findings suggest that unionization increased wages and compelled managers to raise productivity [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Notational systems are useful devices for recording the movements of craftspeople, dancers, and artists. Because of the predominantly haptic nature of their skills, these practitioners experience difficulty in verbalizing descriptions of their work and instructions to fellow artisans. For lace-makers, notation is an effective way of sharing information about the ways a given design is made across generations and community boundaries. But because notation separates procedure from practice and extricates craftwork from its geographical, social, and historical context, it has direct consequences for the ways lace-makers understand skill, proficiency, and design composition. By making craft practice the subject of conversation, notation implicates lace-making in a political economy of knowledge that assigns differential values to different stages of the production process, thereby elevating some ways of knowing above others. Indeed, notation and codification call into question the very agency of the craftswomen as professionals and carriers of local cultural tradition. Based on continuing ethnographic fieldwork among lace-makers in Central Slovakia, this paper analyses the impact of notational use on lace-makers' thinking about their craft knowledge and skill, and, by extension, issues of local style and cultural heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study which examines the factors that elevates the risk of miscarriage of pregnant women textile workers in Shanghai, China. It asserts that heavy occupational activity have an adverse effects in reproductive outcomes. It cited several studies that observed physical demands like heavy lifting and standing too long elevates the risk of miscarriage. It also indicates the potential increased risk of specific occupational characteristics such as crouching.

By what mechanisms has China's developing capitalist labor market been producing stratification patterns of reemployment and wage differences among laid-off workers in the late 1990s? Theoretical perspectives delineating state, market, and societal mechanisms are used to guide exploratory analyses of data from a sample of workers who were laid off from state-owned textile enterprises in the Tianjin municipality. Three findings are reported. First, men with what Portes defined as downward leveling “negative social capital” are less likely to become reemployed. A second, more tenuous, finding is that workers with a higher level of education are more likely to be reemployed. Third, workers with a social network tie to at least one official from a government administrative agency are more likely to be reemployed and, among those reemployed, more likely to earn higher wages, as compared to workers with a social network tie to at least one official from a state-owned enterprise or workers lacking a social network tie to any official. This third finding, along with reports of analogous findings culled from a review of published literature, stimulates us to go beyond the data to theoretically speculate about how Chinese officialdom has become somewhat more differentiated and consequent ramifications for understanding newly emerging changes in China's stratification order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the occupational health risk of textile workers in Shanghai, China. A study was conducted to evaluate the correlation of occupational exposures and endometrial cancer of these workers. Researchers found that there were approximately 199,000 women diagnosed with corpus uteri cancer and there were approximately 50,000 deaths. These type of cancer is considered the tenth most common tumor among women in the country. They found that there is an increased risk of endometrial cancer among women who had worked for at least 10 years in silk production and had exposure to silk dust and concluded that their exposure to these chemicals play a vital role in endometrial carcinoma.

This paper addresses an important but often neglected theme in debates on globalisation—the consequences for workers of engagement in global markets, particularly for those workers who are retrenched in the process. Using the South African textiles industry as a case study, the paper investigates the impact on workers' household livelihoods of industrial restructuring following trade liberalisation in the 1990s. Interviews with textile workers and retrenched textile workers were conducted in five locations in three provinces—the Western Cape, the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal—in order to capture different local dynamics. Workers employed in textiles generally enjoy a relatively stable formal sector wage, which, though less than the manufacturing average, is well above the national poverty line. However, the benefits were not evenly spread between the regions and job insecurity has been increasing. Workers retrenched from textile employment have faced extreme difficulties in a country with exceptionally high levels of open unemployment, and many families have fallen into deep poverty, which may now be transmitted intergenerationally. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous research indicates that employee justice perceptions are positively related to leader-member exchange (LMX). We examined collectivism as a moderator of this relationship. We hypothesized that because maintaining harmonious relationships is important for collectivists, and because protecting their individual identities is not a priority, there is a weaker relationship between interactional and distributive justice perceptions and LMX for individuals high in collectivism. Instead of engaging in behaviors that would lower the quality of their LMX relationships, collectivists are more likely to use soft influence tactics, specifically ingratiation, as a response to perceived unfairness. Thus, we expected a stronger relationship between justice perceptions and ingratiation for those high in collectivism. In a sample of textile-manufacturing employees in Istanbul, Turkey, we found that interactional justice had a weaker positive relationship with LMX for individuals high in collectivism. In addition, distributive justice had a nonsignificant relationship with LMX for those high in collectivism, whereas there was a positive relationship for those low in collectivism. Finally, for collectivists there was a negative relationship between interactional justice perceptions and frequency of ingratiation, suggesting that collectivists may use more subtle mechanisms when responding to interactional unfairness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Industry Commission inquiries into the passenger motor vehicle and textiles clothing and footwear (TCF) industries have focused attention on the employment prospects of workers who are displaced as a result of structural change. The fact that older and less skilled workers face considerable difficulty finding new employment is now widely recognised. In this paper we examine the post-retrenchment outcomes for workers retrenched from jobs in the TCF sector. The method of analysis-discrete-time event history analysis-improves on previous studies of post-retrenchment outcomes because labour market conditions are incorporated into the statistical model, redressing the over-emphasis on supply-side is- sues that characterise previous research. The analysis shows that local and national labour market conditions are important determinants of employment outcomes. Personal characteristics, household circumstances and ascribed skill are also important as employers use these attributes to filter potential recruits. The analysis suggests that the utility of retraining is variable, enhancing the employability of workers with the best prospects (based on their personal characteristics and skills) before taking up retraining but decreasing the employment chances of those with poorer prospects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article distinguishes three time-related worker characteristics: physical facility, skill, and firm attachment. In an analysis of wage determination for a sample of textile production workers physical facility and firm attachment, but not skill, had significant curvilinear effects. These, along with exogenous effects of gender and race and endogenous effects of assignments to machine maintenance and to a weave room, are interpreted as reflecting power relations in the contemporary context of the southern textile labor process and labor market in the United States. The analysis emphasizes the critical importance of contextual considerations in operationalization, specification, and interpretation for wage determination studies. The labor market and labor process of the southern U.S. textile industry create special conditions for the determination of workers' wages. Historically, this has been a labor market in which employers established almost a monopsonistic position vis-a-vis industrial labor, though the diversification of the southern economy has been changing the balance of power in recent decades.

Our patient was a 24-year-old female textile cutter who had a conjunctivitis and an erythematous itching dermatitis of the eyelids, nasal mucous membranes and the corners of the mouth. The patch tests with the standard series and a pharmaceutical test battery were negative. Further epicutaneous testing revealed a strong positive reaction to the textile cutting patterns she handled, which were duplicated by diazo processing. Specifically, the contact dermatitis reaction was caused by dimethylthiourea, an additive in diazo-sensitized paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a study that investigated the actions taken by the Textile Labor Association of Ahmedabad, India to improve the living conditions of workers in the country. Background on the Textile Labor Association; Description of the social welfare activities and economic ventures of the trade union; Reasons behind the success of the organization.

The article presents a case study of a 23-year-old female who developed pustules on the face and the trunk. It talks about the patient being diagnosed with acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) which is found in antibiotics and systemic drugs. It tells about the patient developing AGEP after coming in contact with the chemical while working with disperse dyes in textiles.

To evaluate the prevalence of oral precancerous lesions in textile workers. A cross-sectional study was undertaken to assess a total of 1167 textile factory workers randomly selected from a total of 6947. An overall 97 women and 1070 men aged 18–69 years (mean=31.8 years) were studied. Regular smoking during the past 6 months was considered as the smoker group. Leukoplakia lesions were classified in accordance to Axell criteria [Axell T, Pindborg JJ, Smith CJ and Van-der-waal I (1996). J Oral Pathol Med 25: 49]. The results showed that 115 workers (9.9%) had red and white lesions. Among these 43 positive detections (3.7%) had leukoplakia and six cases (0.5%) had lichen planus. The smoking habits of the workers were limited to cigarette smoking. There was a statistically significant positive correlation between tobacco smoking and oral leukoplakia ( P < 0.001). There was a statistically significant positive correlation between tobacco smoking and leukoplakia in this relatively young cohort with generally mild tobacco use. The prevalence of leukoplakia had an inverse relationship with the level of education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article takes a look on the current situation of the textile industry and trade in Africa. It also attempts to answer if the sub-Saharan Africa's garment trade will survive competition from Asia. In Lesotho and other African countries, the government sees clothing as a way to develop, diversify and create jobs, however the future of the market is uncertain. Jennifer Chen, owner of the Maseru, Lesotho-based Shinning Century, notes that to maintain country's textile industry, establishing more textiles mills would greatly help to reduce lead times and transport cost. Moreover, African producers also need to improve productivity.

This article focuses on occupational purpuric textile dermatitis from formaldehyde resins. A man aged 55 years with no relevant family or previous history, had been working in a textile factory for 15 years, in charge of a special section for the recovery of wool residues obtained from other sections of the same factory. This wool is not pure but with synthetic fibers. The patient had contact with only these wools. After 4 months small petechial and purpuric lesions appeared on the face and the dorsum of the fingers of both hands.

Reports that about 125 Indian workers at textile firm Sentosa Enterprises Ltd., in northern Mauritius, were declared redundant in late April 2004 and the work permits of 20 others revoked. Employer's response to industrial actions at the textile factory in support of a protest action against management attempts to deport a compatriot; Union leader's allegation of ill-treatment of the Indians.

This article focuses on allergic contact dermatitis from diisocynate in wool processing. Common causes of allergic and irritant contact dermatitis in textile industry workers are textile dyes, dye-manufacture-related chemicals, and textiles finishes, example formaldehyde and formaldehyde resins. Despite their sensitizing potential, there are a few reports of contact sensitivity to isocynates. In these cases, polyurethane in molding, special finishes, plastic watchbands, soldering, surface coatings and spectacle frames was responsible.

The article offers information on issues covered at the Second Asian Regional Conference of the Textile Workers' Asian Regional Organisation, held in Tokyo, Japan on October 23 and 24, 1962. A brief summary of the main conference resolutions are given including topics on modernization and rationalization of the textile industry, fringe benefits and education of Asian textile workers.