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Author | : Timothy J. Minchin |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2012-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 144222083X |
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.
Author | : William Graves (Ph. D.) |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0820335614 |
The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation's premier banking and financial cores with interests reaching broadly into global markets. Once defined by its biracial and bicultural character, Charlotte is now an emerging immigrant gateway drawing newcomers from Latin America and across the globe. Once derided for its sleepy, nine-to-five “uptown,” Charlotte's center city has been wholly transformed by residential gentrification, corporate headquarters construction, and amenity-based redevelopment. And yet, despite its rapid transformation, Charlotte remains distinctively southern—globalizing, not yet global. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars and local experts to examine Charlotte from multiple angles. Their topics include the banking industry, gentrification, boosterism, architecture, city planning, transit, public schools, NASCAR, and the African American and Latino communities. United in the conviction that the experience of this Sunbelt city—center of the nation's fifth-largest metropolitan area—offers new insight into today's most pressing urban and suburban issues, the contributors to Charlotte, NC: The Global Evolution of a New South City ask what happens when the external forces of globalization combine with a city's internal dynamics to reshape the local structures, landscapes, and identities of a southern place.
Author | : National Safety Council. Safety Congress |
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Total Pages | : 1180 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Accidents |
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Author | : Mary H. Blewett |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : George Boughton Curtiss |
Publisher | : New York : Pan-American publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 906 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Commerce |
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Author | : George Boughton Curtiss |
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Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Commercial policy |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs |
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Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1941 |
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Total Pages | : 1014 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Railroad conductors |
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Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1877 |
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Author | : Stefani Koorey, PhD |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467119245 |
Fall River's textile boom in the nineteenth century brought with it a series of fiery disasters. The Big Fire of 1843 left more than one thousand people homeless and destroyed two hundred buildings, as well as twenty-some acres of land. After the Steiger Store Fire of 1916, mill owners pushed the city to replace horse-drawn brigades with fire engines. The intense heat from the Kerr Mill Thread Fire of 1987 melted hoses as first responders battled the blaze. Author Stefani Koorey chronicles the historic infernos of the Spindle City and celebrates the community's resilience in the face of adversity.