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USA. Compilation of case studies of social implications and economic implications at the local level level and of the adjustments made in several communities affected by decline of the textile industry in new england during the past 30 years - covers unemployment, steps to absorb the resultant labour surplus, the effects on community development, etc. Statistical tables.
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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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means

Published: 1954

Total Pages: 1922


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