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And since the oil age completely transformed the textile industry, many of the materials and the chemicals used to process them are petroleum based.
And so coupled with our insatiable appetite for fast fashion, a huge amount of textile waste is ending up in landfill every year because it remains notoriously difficult to recycle.
This is a textile mill doing synthetic silk, an oil byproduct.
And what you're seeing here is, again, one of the most state-of-the-art textile mills.
This is a line where they get the threads and they wind the threads together, pre-going into the textile mills.
They allow themselves to be abused worse than textile workers at the turn of the century without simply leaving the situation.
A textile worker develops a miracle fabric that doesn't degrade.
Sidney Stratton is having trouble maintaining jobs at various textile mills mainly because of his experimentation in the textile laboratories.
When Stratton eventually creates the fabric he creates enemies in all the textile workers (who will lose their jobs) and the owners (who will lose money since one mill has the exclusive rights), so Stratton in his white suit becomes the most hunted man in England.
No need to go into the well-known plot about the threat posed to both the textile industry and the textile unions by an indestructible, dirt-resistant fiber.
The movie is like a who's who of 50s British character stars: Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Miles Malleson, Duncan Lamont, and particularly Ernest Thesiger, great as the dessicated old giant of the textile mills.
Fassbinder's most lavish production sacrifices little of his talent for identifying and deconstructing a locus of suffering in long, mobile takes that somehow also act as social encapsulations; here, it's much more overt, since the story takes place in war-torn Germany at the end of WWII, and the central character is a woman (Hanna Schygulla as Maria) who capitalizes on vulnerabilities (both economic and gender-related) to catapult herself up the ladder of a prominent textile corp.
He manages to push himself into various industrial labs in the textile industry.
A confident village bloke, Guru, quickly becomes a famous textile businessman before its time for intermission.
In the early 20th century, it took over twenty years for the electrical engine to transform the textile industry.
Given that Africa now accounts for just 1% of America’s $350 billion textile and apparel market, there is plenty of room for expansion.
The key to success for African countries will be to strengthen the skills base and build competitive industries in the textile and apparel sector.
Losing this sector of the economy to the hyper-competitive Chinese will be a hard hit, as textile exports are often the first step on the development ladder.
In the early nineteenth century, a group of English textile workers known as the Luddites worried that new technologies like power looms and spinning frames would cost them their jobs.
Imagine a gathering of textile entrepreneurs in 1800 debating whether to introduce steam machines to mechanize their cotton mills.
The signs of the fading miracle became visible when Japanese competitors and other Asian Tigers succeeded in wiping out substantial parts of Germany’s labor-intensive textile, optical products, and precision engineering industries.
The US textile lobby insisted that knit fabrics exported north come from Central America.
The director of a medium-size textile enterprise in Bangladesh admits without hesitation that 70% of his employees are between the ages of 13 and 17."They provide the same productivity as adults," he says, "but for a fraction of the cost."
Embracing the New Age of AutomationLONDON – Ever since early-nineteenth-century textile workers destroyed the mechanical looms that threatened their livelihoods, debates over automation have conjured gloom-and-doom scenarios about the future of work.
A buyer who put the engine to work in, say, a textile factory could think of his profit stream as a just reward for having taken the risk of purchasing the machine and for the innovation of coupling it to a spinning jenny or a mechanical loom.
In fact, the demand for qualified blue-collar employees is so high that in 2015 the country’s 23 million textile workers earned, on average, $645 per month – equal to the average college graduate.
As the editor-in-chief of Tempo Weekly Newsmagazine , I am guilty, according to the court, of defaming a business tycoon named Tomy Winata by implying his possible involvement in a fire at Jakarta's South-East Asia textile market, and of fomenting riots by disseminating lies.
Apple is shifting some manufacturing from China to Silicon Valley;Airtex Design Group is moving part of its textile production from China back to the United States.
(The Chinese takeovers of South African and Nigerian textile industries are good examples of this strategy.
The early-nineteenth-century Luddites revolted against the mechanical looms that were supplanting artisanal textile production.
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