mill owners
Textile plant bosses
Mill owners are people who own mills—factories where grain is ground, textiles are woven, or other industrial processing occurs.
The term appears most often in historical contexts, particularly discussions of the Industrial Revolution and labor relations: The mill owners refused to negotiate with striking workers.
It carries connotations of capital versus labor, the wealthy industrialist class opposed to working-class interests.
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- factory floorManufacturing workspace area
- textileMaterial from woven fibers
- industrialistMajor manufacturing business owner
- loomsEmerges menacingly, or textile frames
cotton · cotton gin · wealth · smokestacks · wages · machinery · water power · capitalist · proprietor · spinning · cloth · exploitation · strike · trade union · foreman · brick · waterwheel · steam
- Textile Peopleweavers, spinners, dyers, tailors, seamstresses
- Americanspresidents, senators, governors, generals, authors
- tycoonsoil tycoon, tycoons, railroad tycoon, John Rockefeller, magnates
- frontier peoplepioneers, settlers, frontiersmen, trappers, fur traders
mill ownersmill workers
Employees at processing plants
factory workers · laborers · the working class · proletariat · operatives
mill ownersworkers
People doing jobs
labor · workforce · wage earners · hands · hired help
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