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Empty Mills: The Fight Against Imports and the Decline of the U.S. Textile Industry

Empty Mills: The Fight Against Imports and the Decline of the U.S. Textile Industry

Minchin, Timothy J.

Hardcover

Economics20th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1442220821
ISBN13: 9781442220829
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Dec 19 2012
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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