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    wholesalers and exporters of Cotton Textiles‚ Handloom‚ and Woolen Textiles etc. From the production of textile machinery and equipment‚ dyes and raw materials to the delivery of finished textiles‚ fabrics and garments‚ the textile industry in India has the vast potential for creation of employment opportunities. The number of textiles manufacturers‚ suppliers‚ wholesalers and textiles exporters in India has increased rapidly after independence. Today‚ handloom and cotton textiles exports in India is

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    DBQ The cotton and cloth production in Japan has greatly increased. Japan is hiring more and more workers preferably females workers. The women don’t get paid the first year‚ says the older sister of Aki (Document 3). Most of the entire factory workers were farmers; they went to work in the factories to make more money for their families’ (Document 5). “For the last few decades there has been a rapid decline of hand woven cloth”‚ (Document 6) this just shows you that machines are taking over

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    The cotton industry grew increasingly popular during the 1880s and continued its growth all the way to the 1930s. Two of its major producers were India and Japan‚ and although they both worked in the production of cotton‚ they had various differences. They used the same employees but their production rates were not the same. The living conditions in which the people worked also seemed to have been better in India than Japan. And the percentage of female laborers was much higher in Japan. Documents

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    Cotton Industry Through the beginning of evolution of humans one of the most common utilities used were cotton for clothing and other things. As trading became popular through Asia and machines were invented the owners would usually use many workers and get a low wage out of their work just as in Japan and India. The cotton industries throughout Japan and India became a great success in the period 1880s to the 1930s. A similarity of these countries was that they both recruited laborers who worked

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    Cultural Event The cultural event that I attended was the lecture with the Picking Cotton authors Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton. The event was located in Memorial Coliseum where Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton talked about there story. I chose to attend this activity not only for my cultural event‚ but also because I thought it would be interesting and helpful. I actually enjoyed reading the book and I wanted to hear more about their story and experiences. I was really interested in seeing

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    It was 1793‚ when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. A cotton gin is a machine that quickly separates cotton fibers from their seeds. This allows for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. Eli Whitney was born on December 8‚ 1765 in Westborough‚ Massachusetts. He died on January 8‚ 1825. When he was a child‚ he loved working in his father’s workshop. He’d take things apart‚ then put them back together again. (For example‚ a clock.) He worked on a Georgian Plantation when he was

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    surprising scale. The cotton business was the focal point of this movement. Before the mechanical developments of the Modern Upset‚ India was the cotton fabricating focus of the world and sent out its materials everywhere throughout the world. Rivalry from imported cotton was a noteworthy reason for disdain for the conventional fleece industry in England. We have records of warmed level headed discussions in Parliament in the 1600s and mid 1700s about how to confine the utilization of cotton. A law went in

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    that was to completely change the course of the history of the United States‚ the cotton gin. From now on‚ the once tenuous task of separating the seed from the fibre of cotton would be accomplished much faster‚ hence considerably improving cotton production and most importantly rendering the culture of cotton on American soil a profitable business. As textile industry blossomed in Europe‚ the world demand for cotton rose steeply and America would play a leading role in providing the priced resource

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    production. It provides direct employment to over 15 million persons in the mill‚ powerloom and handloom sectors. India is the world’s second largest producer of textiles after China. It is the world’s third largest producer of cotton-after China and the USA-and the second largest cotton consumer after China. The textile industry in India is one of the oldest manufacturing sectors in the country and is currently it’s largest1. The Textile industry occupies an important place in the Economy of the country

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    The Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney In 1793 an American inventor named Eli Whitney born in December 8 1765‚ Massachusetts‚ USA created a modern mechanical machine called the Cotton Gin. This phenomenal machine separated cotton seeds from cotton fibres and was incredibly important as it dramatically reduced the amount of time spent separating the two from each other. Eli changed the agriculture and manufacturing revolutionised not only the cotton industry but the American industrial

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