http://www.historynet.com/british-textiles-clothe-the-world.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:44:02 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.historynet.com/british-textiles-clothe-the-world.htm/comment-page-1#comment-76025 Gerard Armorer Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:47:50 +0000 #comment-76025 This is a well-researched article on the history of textile manufacture with detailed insights into the technological and social history of the industry. The conditions under which adults labored and children suffered remind one of the awful conditions under which Africans slaved in Barbados even after so-called emancipation. This shows that capitalism had no favorites but destroyed whole communities wherever it arose. It is almost beyond belief that today billions can be stolen with a pen from people all over the world in the land that created modern society while the textile looms have been outsourced to the third world to enslave a fresh generation of the poor. This is a well-researched article on the history of textile manufacture with detailed insights into the technological and social history of the industry. The conditions under which adults labored and children suffered remind one of the awful conditions under which Africans slaved in Barbados even after so-called emancipation. This shows that capitalism had no favorites but destroyed whole communities wherever it arose.
It is almost beyond belief that today billions can be stolen with a pen from people all over the world in the land that created modern society while the textile looms have been outsourced to the third world to enslave a fresh generation of the poor.

]]> http://www.historynet.com/british-textiles-clothe-the-world.htm/comment-page-1#comment-560 Malise Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:01:09 +0000 #comment-560 Saltaire. Now there's a thing. When I lived in Skipton it was just up the road, near to Shipley which is outside Bradford and in Yorkshire, and nowhere near Morley! Malise Saltaire. Now there's a thing. When I lived in Skipton it was just up the road, near to Shipley which is outside Bradford and in Yorkshire, and nowhere near Morley!
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