When we started talking, more than 100,000 people worked in British footwear factories.

Later he helped manage his family's footwear factories before a successful 1988 run for Congress.

Strikes were also reported at textile and footwear factories across the country.

The local rubber footwear factory has been idle for several weeks because no raw materials are coming in.

This amount, which applied only to garment and footwear factories, was generally respected during the year.

"Basically, the workers in footwear factories, not just our factories, are better off today than two years ago."

Since then, local businesses, including a footwear factory and a food packaging plant, have collapsed, leaving hundreds unemployed.

Most garment and footwear factories respected the minimum wage.

One parliamentary colleague told us that a footwear factory in his constituency had received a major order from the government on behalf of the army.

Stores and footwear factories in these countries were managed from the headquarters in Zlín.

During his speech, Knight unveiled plans to set a minimum age of 18 at all Nike footwear factories.

Footwear factories have heavier machinery and use more dangerous raw material, including solvents that cause toxic air pollution.

Footwear factories are equipped with heavy machinery that can cause serious injury, and much of the raw material used in the factories is toxic.

Apparel and footwear factories overseas have slowly improved working conditions in response to a highly vocal anti-sweatshop movement, labor rights advocates say.

By his death, their company, J. and T. Bell was one of the larger footwear factories in Montreal.

Lin Qin came in search of a strategy for his fast-growing footwear factory in Fujian.

Having lost his job at a footwear factory in October, he chose to start up his own shoe-stitching business rather than return home to central China.

The latest report of the Ministry of Commerce showed that currently, the country has about 500 garment and footwear factories employing some 510,600 workers.

But unlike apparel production, which often moves to ever-cheaper frontiers, footwear factories are highly mechanized. '

The United States devoted substantial funding to protect children from sexual exploitation, trafficking and hazardous work on fishing platforms and in footwear factories.

South African FDI is also present in footwear factories, hotels, air travel, insurance and telecommunications, financial services, and mining.

Monte Urano is an important center of shoe production, ranging from man, woman to child shoes, and it is therefore the site of many footwear factories.

The quick growth of the Voltan footwear factory became the basis for the development of the Riviera del Brenta footwear district.

A "sourcing agent," or middleman, Asco arranges for footwear factories, mainly in South Korea, to manufacture Reebok shoes.

Today the city has optical and farm-machinery plants, a cannery, a brewery, a vitamin factory, a sewing factory, a footwear factory, and other industrial enterprises.