Table of Contents: Empty mills :

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Minchin, Timothy J.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2013]
Subjects:	Textile industry > United States. Textile industry > Government policy > United States. Clothing trade > United States. Deindustrialization > United States. Imports > United States. Free trade > United States. Electronic books.
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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.