A sprawling, long-dormant industrial building in Greenville that previously served as a cotton warehouse for Poe Mill is in ...

Some entrepreneurs made fortunes from the new cotton industry, but many of the factory start-ups went bust. Success depended on a variety of factors, which you will encounter as you play the game.

Changes began in the 1850s. As the railroad expanded in the South, production of cotton, wheat, and tobacco increased. Entrepreneurs needed capital and a steady supply of workers for the southern mill ...

Arkwright set up the first water-powered cotton mill at Cromford, Derbyshire, in 1771. He is regarded as the founder of the Factory Age. By 1783 Arkwight was rich enough to build a huge new mill ...

Pakistan offers Belarus raw materials and specialists for the cotton industry, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said ...

This activity is an excerpt from our curriculum packet, "Cotton, Cloth, and Conflict: The Meaning of Slavery in a Northern ... from the point of view of a female textile mill operative. Role-play a ...

Plans to convert Victorian cotton mill buildings into into flats have been thrown out due to lack of parking. The vacant ...

At the factory gate of Xinjiang Daqo ... Another Uygur worker at the same cotton mill named Krim Hadirjan also debunked the "forced labor" lie. "As a local who grew up near the cotton fields ...

The mill produced cotton exported all over the world until the closure of the weaving sheds in the early 1990s ...

Episode 9 - Meet a married couple running a booming Scotch egg business and visit a cotton mill-turned-soap factory, craftsmen making accurate compasses, and a family firm making teddy bears. More ...