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At home, in addition to traditional textiles, industry was expanding fast in metallurgy, chemicals, and machinery.
Advocates emphasized that “textiles and apparel offer proportionately more jobs, including entry-level positions, to less well educated, more disadvantaged groups in the United States than most other sectors of the economy.”
Greider contends that in many key industries--including autos, textiles, steel, ships, aircraft, chemicals, computers, and drugs--the world's companies are capable of producing far more than the world's consumers can buy.
Although small, family-owned and operated companies were the norm in traditional textiles, in the early 1950s leaders like Burlington Industries and Milliken undertook vertical integration to handle textile products from fiber to finishing.
The drive to gain advantage from economies of scale and the role of manufacturing technology in textiles have also affected the people who work in the industry.