Deputy Chief Minister and Urban Development and Housing Minister Eknath Shinde, in a written reply, said that so far 98,619 ...

Despite being the only state in India with a dedicated housing scheme for mill workers, Maharashtra has so far been able to ...

Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday extended support to protests by teachers at Azad Maidan against the Maharashtra government's ...

Over 150 workers feel they were blindsided by layoffs at one of Kings Mountain’s last textile mills. Many of them said they had spent their entire careers spinning fibers into yarn, and now ...

The workers are gone now — textile production disappeared over time — some mills closed many decades ago while some held on longer, the last closing in 2009.

-The Convention of the United Textile Workers of America, which will meet in this city on Oct. 20, will devote a great deal of its time to the discussion of unionizing cotton-mill labor in the South.

Whole families, including young children, sometimes went to work in cotton and textile mills. In 1905, N.C. textile and apparel workers labored 10.5 hours a day, six days a week, the North ...

USM's Osher Map Library offers an exhibit on the Northeast's textile mills, including Bates Manufacturing in Lewiston, whose economic power for 100 years changed life in scores of cities and towns.

More than 2,400 mill workers and their families lived in its surrounding village as of 1929. At its peak, the factory produced more than 275 miles of cotton cloth a day.