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Garment work throughout the world is typified as being highly competitive requiring a great degree of flexibility that responds swiftly to changing trends in market demand. Studying how this industry is organized and reorganized in transforming societies2 of—fers insights into the effects of capitalist globalization because this industry is so sens1t1ve to market shifts. Meeting nearly 50% of the USSR’s textile and apparel needs throughout most of the 20 ‘h Century, Ukraine is a key country for studying the effects of