Its 1950s-era textile mills are laying off workers.
The employment of young women in textile mills during the Industrial Revolution was largely an extension of an older pattern of employment of young, single women as domestics.
And how do we drive our textile mills, brick kilns, blast furnaces and electric railways - not to mention advanced industrial processes?
If we make a conservative estimate of 50 percent, there must be over 24,000 out of the 48,000 hands in the 30 Japanese textile mills in Shanghai who are "contract" girls doubly exploited by the mill-owners and recruiting agents.
In the local textile mills or in farming, these jobs were passed from one generation to the next.
India, in order to keep enough cotton for its own textile mills, announced an export ban.
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