In 1900, Warren Clay Coleman was considered “the richest Black man in America” after opening the first Black-owned and -operated textile ... mill, he provided necessary resources for his 300 ...
The Convention of the United Textile Workers of America, which will meet in this city on Oct. 20, will devote a great deal of its time to the discussion of unionizing cotton-mill labor in the South.
The steep steps were once used by thousands of city mill workers and offer a glimpse into Aberdeen's once thriving textile ...
(JTA) — Aaron Feuerstein, who became known as the “Mensch of Malden Mills” for continuing to pay his workers even after the textile factory ... and equally important was the manufacturing ...
A major struggle in the history of the American Left occurred when twenty-five thousand striking silk workers shut down the three hundred silk mills and ... Unlike most textile strikes, including ...
This constitutes to a third of all textile workers in India. Over 600 spinning wheels have shut down leaving 200,000 unemployed. Half of these shutdown took place in the textile hub of Coimbatore ...