Empty mills : : the fight against imports and the decline of the U.S. textile industry / / Timothy J. Minchin.

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Place / Publishing House:Lanham : : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,, [2013]
2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (353 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of 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.