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for "Textile industry"
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15249
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No list of pioneer manufacturers in North Carolina would be complete without including the name of Edwin M. Holt, founder of a great textile industry. With the water power of the Great Alamance Creek, Holt began his modest textile mill with help from Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin. From this small beginning sprang a textile empire which extended until it embraced hundreds of thousands of spindles and thousands of looms, giving employment to thousands in the Piedmont.
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16973
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Goerch recounts one of the most interesting and sensational business careers ever seen in North Carolina--James Spencer Love, head of Burlington Mills, Inc., which is headquartered in Greensboro.
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17771
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A new exhibit at Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington uses spools of thread from abandoned mills to highlight North Carolina's textile industry.
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19673
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Textile industries within the state flourished during the Civil War. The industry profited with demand high for every scrap of cloth and spare piece of thread due to heavy regulation by the state. Regulatory effects of textile output, prices, and profits are analyzed.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 9 Issue 2, Apr 1932,
p117-137, f
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19703
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The state's growing textile industry in the late 19th century demanded a larger workforce, with many filled by women and children. By 1887, a commissioner from the State Bureau of Labor Statistics began gathering data about child labor first by questionnaires sent to mill officials and later by more invasive investigations. The article covers the labor bureau's efforts to legislate child labor and the general conditions for children, especially those forced to work in the textile industry.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 13 Issue 2, April 1936,
p105-121, f
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21072
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Ethel Thomas was a North Carolina author who wrote under the pen name, 'Aunt Becky,' and published in the Charlotte area during the first half of the 19th century. Thomas wrote fictional accounts about the Southern textile industry which was a large economic cog of the Charlotte area. Publisher David Clark, owner of the Southern Textile Bulletin, reprinted several of Thomas' novels in his magazine as well as put 'Aunt Becky' in a weekly column where she served up folksy success stories, advice, news, descriptions of Southern mill towns she had visited.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 5, 1996,
p154-167, por
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21074
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In these excerpts from early 20th century columnist Ethel Thomas, also known under her pen name 'Aunt Becky,' she dispenses advice on a variety of topics to textile workers from around the South. These topics include her views on beauty, cursing, uniforms, and conspicuous absence.
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21731
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This article examines the life of David Clark, editor of the 'Southern Textile Bulletin,' a trade journal for textile workers. Clark was born in Raleigh in 1877 and attended North Carolina State College and Cornell University where he received degrees in engineering. The article spends particular time on Clark's role in defending racism in the South and his efforts to protect the interests of the textile industry.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 89 Issue 1, January 2012,
p59-91 , il, por, f
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21824
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A look at the hillbilly songs of Dave McCarn, a Gastonia, textile mill worker, who wrote about the realities of life for Southern mill workers in the 1920s-30s. McCarn's best-known recording, \"Cotton Mill Colic,\" and its two sequels, criticized the Southern textile industry for failing to pay workers a living wage.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 3, July 2003,
p297-333, il, por, f
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22708
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David Clark (1877-1955), an ultra-conservative spokesman for southern textile industrialists, worked to halt child labor legislation in interest of textile mills and the Farmers' States Rights League, which relied heavily on child labor in the early 1900s.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 91 Issue 1, January 2014,
p30-62, il, por, f
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24159
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Glen Raven, Inc. is a 129-year-old textile maker that continues to thrive in Alamance County. The author presents some of the fabrics the company makes and why it has been so successful throughout the years.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 29 Issue 11, November 2009,
p34-41, il
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24193
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Asheboro-based Fox Apparel struggles to keeps its doors open since 1995, when apparel-manufacturing jobs the United States gave way to technology improvements and low-cost imports.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 27 Issue 4, April 2007,
p66-73, il
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24215
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Kannapolis-based textile manufacturer Pillowtex Corp. closed its doors, causing more than 5,000 people to lose their jobs. This article highlights unemployment and the difficulties of finding a job without a high school diploma or many skills.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 24 Issue 1, January 2004,
p24-29, il
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24294
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Shelby Yarn Inc. in Shelby, North Carolina shut down in January 2000 and 650 people lost their jobs. This article presents Max Gardener III and how he helped blow the whistle on the various nefarious undertakings of the mill owner, Sidney Kosann.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 9, September 2000,
p50-57, il
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24336
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The Kier brothers operate Lida Inc., a Charlotte-based maker of polyester stretch fabrics that employs about 600 people in Mecklenburg and Gaston counties. The brothers chose to take their business public, which allowed them to reap a twenty million dollar payout but caused stock shares to lose half their value.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 13 Issue 5, May 1993,
p46-53, il
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