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    children were forced to return to the mill and clean the machines.  Boys and girls had different jobs‚ although both were demanding and dangerous.  A boy worked as a scavenger‚ meaning he crawled under the whirling machines to retrieve any dropped cotton.  His hair‚ clothing‚ or body could become tangled and caught in the machine resulting in severe injury or death.  A girl’s job was a piecer‚ she would repair broken thread.  In 1841‚ a study showed that one child walked an average of 30 miles a day

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    University Press‚ 1969. Engels‚ Frederick co.‚ 1892 Secondary Sources: [ 1 ]. A French Traveller‚ Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain‚ During the Years 1810 and 1811 (Edinburgh: G. Ramsey‚ 1815)‚ 1. [ 2 ]. Edward Baines‚ The History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain (London: R. Fisher and P. Jackson‚ 1835)‚ 2. [ 3 ]. Frederick Engels‚ The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (S. Sonnenschein & Co.‚ 1892)‚ 3. [ 4 ]. Beverly Lemire and Giorgio Riello‚ East and West: Textiles

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    Project Report On Em Certified that the project report entitled “Employee Welfare Activities at Sel Manufacturing co. ltd‚ Rahon” submitted by Kamaljit Kaur for partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Business Administration is a bona –fide work to the best of my knowledge and may be placed before the examiners for the consideration. Date: Directing Faculty

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    A. THE MAIN FACTS ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE COMPANY Veja is a french brand of ecological and fair trade footwear and accessories that was founded in 2004 by Sébastien Kopp and Ghislain Morillion. Born out of a desire for a new kind of fashion‚ Veja works with cooperatives of small producers and social associations in Brazil and France. Veja has a staff of almost 30 operating in Paris‚ London and Brazil. Today‚ Veja products – that have already been featured on Vogue‚ The Guardian‚ Clark‚ Monocle

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    GLS INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY-MBA REPORT ON: Ashima Textile Group Ltd Production and operation management SUBMMITED TO: Prof. Gurmit Singh PREPARED BY: Shivani Patel (Gls1233) Darshana Solanki (Gls1251) Mali Khunti(Gls1214) Maurvi Solanki (Gls1253) Parvati Maurya (Gls1221)

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    stacked on each other‚ with a wire connected to both ends of the pile. With the wire touching both ends‚ this creates electricity. The battery was made in Italy in 1800. cotton Gin The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. The cotton gin separated seeds from cotton fiber. This invention impacted the production of cotton as it sped up the process greatly over

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    organically certified manufacturing facilities in India. To keep costs low‚ director of Marketing and eCommerce Aaron Wasserman said the company chose to purchase cotton from India as opposed to the U.S.‚ where "the cost is prohibitive." "India is the largest producer of organic cotton today‚" Sitwat said. "Where we get our cotton‚ the land it is being cultivated on has to be organic for three years before it can get certification." Organic means it is free of pesticides and a

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    This forum needed the Year of wonder chapter summaries so here it is Apple Picking Season Summary The novel begins in the Fall of 1666. The main character‚ Anna Frith‚ is a servant to the village priest‚ who she tries to get to eat some apples‚ but he is despondent and broken. Everyone looks weary and Anna thinks back to happier times when she married Sam Frith at age fifteen and left a drunken father and stepmother who overworked Anna. Sam dies‚ but she has two sons. She cares for Michael

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    everyday products that was known back then as “pre-modern world”. In 1790‚ Samuel Slater is often credited at the first person to start the “American Revolution which was similar to the British model. With his innovation expanding the pace of how cotton string could be converted to yarn.

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    Hass’‚ “Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who has Been Reading Jacques Lacan” and Seamus Haeney’s‚ “Blackberry-picking” share a variety of common ground. Both poems are literally similar as well as figuratively. Beginning with a literal comparison‚ the title. “Picking Blackberries…” and “Blackberry-picking” both used the action word of picking. This may come across as a minute similarity; however‚ it is not. “Picking” represents a memory of a past action or a past time. Although “Picking Blackberries

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