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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Timothy J Minchin |
| ISBN: | 9781442220829 1442220821 9781442220836 144222083X |
| OCLC Number: | 800034449 |
| Description: | xii, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | A troubled industry in an era of prosperity -- Mobilizing against the import threat -- Import escalation and the build-up to H.R. 1562 -- The most important battle : the fight to pass the 1985 Textile Bill -- A resounding blow : the 1987 and 1990 textile bills -- Us is spelled U.S. : the crafted with pride in the USA campaign -- Looking beyond our borders : the industry in the era of NAFTA and GATT -- A tidal wave : the collapse of the industry in the new millennium -- Fighting back : lowell, massachusetts and the long battle against deindustrialization in the north -- It knocked this city to its knees : a case study of deindustrialization in Kannapolis, North Carolina. |
| Responsibility: | Timothy J. Minchin. |
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Empty Mills demonstrates the devastating impact of the demise of the U.S. textile and garment industries on workers and communities and tells the story of the curious cross-class campaigns that tried--and ultimately failed--to preserve U.S. jobs using import controls. This is a tragic cautionary tale for working people and unions in the neoliberal era. -- Nancy MacLean, Duke University, author of Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace Historian Minchin (La Trobe Univ., Australia) provides a thoroughly documented study about one of the lesser-known and most disastrous stories of America's deindustrialization--the decline and fall of the textile industry. Textile manufacturing was the nation's first industry, early in New England and later in the South, employing many thousands of people, mostly in small cities. Because of this, small cities were devastated when a mill closed. Little attention was given in the media to the mill closings in small cities, as opposed to the wide media coverage of layoffs in large cities like Detroit and Pittsburgh. In addition to these mills' being the major employer in a small city, a great proportion of the workers were women and blacks. Minchin also reports on the unsuccessful efforts to save the industry through union compromises and employer organization, to no avail. The effects of imports, trade deals such as NAFTA, and automation are discussed in detail. The book concludes with two microeconomic studies, one in the North and one in the South, of cities that were devastated and their efforts to recover. Abundant footnotes; exhaustive bibliography. Summing Up: Recommended. CHOICE Read more...
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- Textile industry -- United States.
- Textile industry -- Government policy -- United States.
- Clothing trade -- United States.
- Deindustrialization -- United States.
- Imports -- United States.
- Free trade -- United States.
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