The Textile Industries of the United States

The Textile Industries of the United States
Title The Textile Industries of the United States PDF eBook
Author William R. Bagnall
Publisher
Pages 832
Release 1893
Genre Industrialists
ISBN

Download The Textile Industries of the United States Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A Common Thread

A Common Thread
Title A Common Thread PDF eBook
Author Beth Anne English
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 249
Release 2010-01-25
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0820336696

Download A Common Thread Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

With important ramifications for studies relating to industrialization and the impact of globalization, A Common Thread examines the relocation of the New England textile industry to the piedmont South between 1880 and 1959. Through the example of the Massachusetts-based Dwight Manufacturing Company, the book provides an informative historic reference point to current debates about the continuous relocation of capital to low-wage, largely unregulated labor markets worldwide. In 1896, to confront the effects of increasing state regulations, labor militancy, and competition from southern mills, the Dwight Company became one of the first New England cotton textile companies to open a subsidiary mill in the South. Dwight closed its Massachusetts operations completely in 1927, but its southern subsidiary lasted three more decades. In 1959, the branch factory Dwight had opened in Alabama became one of the first textile mills in the South to close in the face of post-World War II foreign competition. Beth English explains why and how New England cotton manufacturing companies pursued relocation to the South as a key strategy for economic survival, why and how southern states attracted northern textile capital, and how textile mill owners, labor unions, the state, manufacturers' associations, and reform groups shaped the ongoing movement of cotton-mill money, machinery, and jobs. A Common Thread is a case study that helps provide clues and predictors about the processes of attracting and moving industrial capital to developing economies throughout the world.

Textiles and Apparel

Textiles and Apparel
Title Textiles and Apparel PDF eBook
Author United States Tariff Commission
Publisher
Pages 184
Release 1968
Genre Textile fabrics
ISBN

Download Textiles and Apparel Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Empty Mills

Empty Mills
Title Empty Mills PDF eBook
Author Timothy J. Minchin
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages 355
Release 2012-12-16
Genre History
ISBN 144222083X

Download Empty Mills Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

With the economy struggling, there has been much discussion about the effects of deindustrialization on American manufacturing. While the steel and auto industries have taken up most of the spotlight, the textile and apparel industries have been profoundly affected. In Empty Mills, Timothy Minchin provides the first book length study of how both industries have suffered since WWII and the unwavering efforts of industry supporters to prevent that decline. In 1985, the textile industry accounted for one in eight manufacturing jobs, and unlike the steel and auto industries, more than fifty percent of the workforce was women or minorities. In the last four decades over two million jobs have been lost in the textile and apparel industries alone as more and more of the manufacturing moves overseas. Impeccably well researched, providing information on both the history and current trends, Empty Mills will be of importance to anyone interested in economics, labor, the social historical, as well as the economic significance of the decline of one of America’s biggest industries.

Making Sweatshops

Making Sweatshops
Title Making Sweatshops PDF eBook
Author Ellen Israel Rosen
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 350
Release 2002-12-03
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0520233379

Download Making Sweatshops Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"Making Sweatshops reveals the inexorable movement towards an open trading system, the shifting alignments of actors pushing for or opposing openness, and, most centrally, how trade policy promotes the globalization of apparel production, filling a gap in our understanding of these dynamics."—Richard P. Appelbaum, coauthor of Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry "A detailed examination of the role that trade policy plays in the process of globalization. Rosen provides a meticulous historical analysis of the textile/apparel industry, one of the world's most globalized industries and one of its most hot-button issues."—Stephen Cullenberg, coauthor of Transition and Development in India "Rosen shows how politics have always shaped the trade agenda from beginning to end, and she presents a most compelling case that if trade and the global economy are to foster justice and equality for the people of our world, we will need to rewrite the existing rules of global trade."—Charles Kernaghan, director of the National Labor Committee "This book delves deep into the industry's trade journals, congressional testimony, newspaper accounts, and economic and political scholarship of the last fifty-five years to tell the story of U.S. trade policy and the decline of labor standards in the apparel industry. This patient and voluminous examination systematically reveals, for the first time, how the U.S. sacrificed its apparel workers on the altar, first of the anti-Communist crusade, and then of free trade ideology."—Robert J.S. Ross, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Director, International Studies Stream, Clark University "Making Sweatshops is, in part, a history of the apparel and textile industries in the U.S. and the world. But it is much more than that. It is also about power and globalization. Rosen explains how the former shapes the latter, and how workers around the world suffer because of it. Activists, policy makers, consumers--anyone interested in understanding why sweatshops exist--should read this book."—Bruce Raynor, President, Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (Unite) "Rosen convincingly demonstrates that it is the transnational corporations rather than the consumers, and certainly rather than the workers, who benefit from trade liberalization, whose rules the lobbyists for these very coporations more or less write for supine politicians. This is a book in the great tradition of solid scholarship allied with deep commitment to the cause of global economic justice."—Leslie Sklair, author of Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives

Lamb's Textile Industries of the United States

Lamb's Textile Industries of the United States
Title Lamb's Textile Industries of the United States PDF eBook
Author E. Everton Foster
Publisher
Pages 726
Release 1916
Genre Businessmen
ISBN

Download Lamb's Textile Industries of the United States Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A New Order of Things

A New Order of Things
Title A New Order of Things PDF eBook
Author Paul E. Rivard
Publisher UPNE
Pages 180
Release 2002
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9781584652182

Download A New Order of Things Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A lavishly-illustrated social history of the manufacture that did most to transform the character of New England and of America.