Empty Mills

Author : Timothy J. Minchin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442220836

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Empty Mills by Timothy J. Minchin Pdf

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 : Billie Coleman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781467124256

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Central Georgia Textile Mills by Billie Coleman Pdf

From Macon to Hawkinsville, the history of Georgia's once thriving textile mills is documented in this visual history. Cotton was once king throughout Georgia. Reconstruction investors and railroad tycoons saw this potential to open textile mills in the South instead of sending cotton up North. Towns across Central Georgia became a prime spot to locate textile mills because of the access to cotton from local farms, cheap labor, and nearby rivers to power the mills. Textile mills were operated in cities and towns across Central Georgia such as Macon, Columbus, Augusta, Tifton, Forsyth, Porterdale, and Hawkinsville, among others. The textile mills provided employment and sometimes a home in their villages to people across Georgia as the agrarian lifestyle gave way to industrial expansion. In these mills, photographer Lewis Hine captured iconic images of child labor. After the decline of production and closing of the mills, many have been revived into new usages that honor the legacy of the mill workers and their families who lived in the villages of the textile mills across Central Georgia.

Author : William Graves (Ph. D.),Heather A. Smith
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820335612

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Charlotte, NC by William Graves (Ph. D.),Heather A. Smith Pdf

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 : Julia Allen Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Cottonseed oil mills
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU11747730

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Labor and Power Utilization at Cottonseed Oil Mills by Julia Allen Mitchell Pdf

Author : Virginia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Law
ISBN : OSU:32437123259760

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Acts Passed at a General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia by Virginia Pdf

Author : Hoyle B. Puckett,D. R. Daum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Feed mills
ISBN : UVA:X030378061

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Performance of Small Hammer and Roller Mills for Grinding Livestock Feed by Hoyle B. Puckett,D. R. Daum Pdf

Author : M R Ghosh
Publisher : New Age International
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 8122400884

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Concepts of Insect Control by M R Ghosh Pdf

This Book Gathers Together Informations From Various Known Sources And From Knowledges Accumulated Through The Practices Of Crop Husbandry Presented In Various Publications As Historical Anecdotes And Reviews. It Covers Topics Like The Genesis Of Pest Problems Of Crops, Characteristics Of Inflicting Injury To The Crops By Insects, Methods Of Assessment Of Level Of Infestation And Intent Of Damage And Finally Strategies To Minimise The Avoidable Loss Due To Pest Infestation. Further To Accommodate The Changing Concepts In Dealing With Pest Problems Emphasis Has Also Been Given On The Topics Like Ecology And Agroecosystem, Advantages And Limitations Of Unilateral Adoption Of Any Of The Different Pest Control Tactics And Ultimately How The Different Methods Can Be Integrated To Offset The Undesirable Effects As Insecticidal Method Of Pest Control Is Commonly Practised For Convenience And Immediate Results Brief Accounts Of Insecticides And Application Equipments, Various Facets Of Application Technology And Passage Of These Undesirable Chemicals To Non-Target Areas Have Been Included Which Are Relevant From The Point Of View Of Environmental Hazards This Compendium Has Been Designed In The Form Of Text Book For Students Of Entomology And Will Also Serve As A Companion Hand Book For All Engaged In Insect Control And Studies.

Author : David Watt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317742463

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Surveying Historic Buildings by David Watt Pdf

This bestselling book has been fully revised and updated to include valuable new case studies and examples which help to demonstrate the common problems found in older buildings. It features many additional photographs illustrating the decay mechanims and individual issues associated with damp, timber decay, masonry defects, roofing problems and many other aspects. The book begins by summarizing the basics of surveying practice, including the inspection, assessment, defect diagnosis and monitoring of defects. It then examines the building elements, discussing their construction, typical faults and their diagnoses. This section provides specific advice on assessing industrial monuments and features concise inspection checklists for ease of reference. In the final section, the author looks to the future, considering the specific challenges faced by property professionals when employed to survey historic buildings. The book is accompanied by comprehensive appendices, including sample survey forms, and a list of useful contacts is followed by an extensive bibliography. This book will be of particular interest to conservation officers, surveyors, architects, archaeologists and planners.

Author : Sherry Lee Linkon,John Russo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X004470967

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Steeltown U.S.A by Sherry Lee Linkon,John Russo Pdf

Once the symbol of a robust steel industry and blue-collar economy, Youngstown, Ohio, and its famous Jeannette Blast Furnace have become key icons in the tragic tale of American deindustrialization. Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo examine the inevitable tension between those discordant visions, which continue to exert great power over Steeltown's citizens as they struggle to redefine their lives. When the Jenny was shut down in 1978, 50,000 Youngstown workers lost their jobs, cutting the heart out of the local economy. Even as the community organized a nationally recognized effort to save the mills, the city was rocked by economic devastation, runaway crime, and mob scandal, problems that persist twenty-five years later. In the midst of these struggles the Jenny remained standing as a proud symbol of the community's glory days, still a dominant force in the construction of both individual and collective identities in Youngstown. Focusing on stories and images that both reflect and perpetuate how Youngstown understands itself as a community, Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo have forged a historical and cultural study of the relationship between community, memory, work, and confli

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Textile fabrics
ISBN : NYPL:33433066356332

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Fibre & Fabric by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael P. Conzen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317793700

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The Making of the American Landscape by Michael P. Conzen Pdf

The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years. It presents a synoptic view of myriad historical processes working together or in conflict, and illustrates them through their survival in or disappearance from the everyday landscapes of today.

Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Interstate commerce
ISBN : HARVARD:HNTJ7U

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Interstate Commerce Commission Reports by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission Pdf

Author : James C. O'Connell
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262314077

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The Hub's Metropolis by James C. O'Connell Pdf

The evolution of the Boston metropolitan area, from country villages and streetcar suburbs to exurban sprawl and “smart growth.” Boston's metropolitan landscape has been two hundred years in the making. From its proto-suburban village centers of 1800 to its far-flung, automobile-centric exurbs of today, Boston has been a national pacesetter for suburbanization. In The Hub's Metropolis, James O'Connell charts the evolution of Boston's suburban development. The city of Boston is compact and consolidated—famously, “the Hub.” Greater Boston, however, stretches over 1,736 square miles and ranks as the world's sixth largest metropolitan area. Boston suburbs began to develop after 1820, when wealthy city dwellers built country estates that were just a short carriage ride away from their homes in the city. Then, as transportation became more efficient and affordable, the map of the suburbs expanded. The Metropolitan Park Commission's park-and-parkway system, developed in the 1890s, created a template for suburbanization that represents the country's first example of regional planning. O'Connell identifies nine layers of Boston's suburban development, each of which has left its imprint on the landscape: traditional villages; country retreats; railroad suburbs; streetcar suburbs (the first electric streetcar boulevard, Beacon Street in Brookline, was designed by Frederic Law Olmsted); parkway suburbs, which emphasized public greenspace but also encouraged commuting by automobile; mill towns, with housing for workers; upscale and middle-class suburbs accessible by outer-belt highways like Route 128; exurban, McMansion-dotted sprawl; and smart growth. Still a pacesetter, Greater Boston has pioneered antisprawl initiatives that encourage compact, mixed-use development in existing neighborhoods near railroad and transit stations. O'Connell reminds us that these nine layers of suburban infrastructure are still woven into the fabric of the metropolis. Each chapter suggests sites to visit, from Waltham country estates to Cambridge triple-deckers.

Author : George Boughton Curtiss
Publisher : New York : Pan-American publishing Company
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Commerce
ISBN : UOM:39015066917306

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Protection and Prosperity by George Boughton Curtiss Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11354519

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House documents by Anonim Pdf