textile industry
Cloth production sector
The textile industry encompasses the businesses and processes involved in producing fibers, yarns, and fabrics—from raw material processing through weaving, knitting, dyeing, and finishing.
It includes cotton mills, synthetic fiber plants, garment manufacturers, and related operations.
Once a driver of industrialization, the textile industry has largely migrated from wealthy nations to lower-wage economies: The textile industry in Bangladesh employs millions.
- sweatshopExploitative manufacturing workplace
- sweatshop laborExploitative factory work
- garment workerOne who makes clothing
- child laborMinors performing paid work
- piece workPay per item produced
trade union · doffing · loom · spinning jenny · weaving · carpets · dyeing · spinning wheel · cotton · cotton gin · raw materials · mill town · jacquard · garment · fast fashion · natural fibers · fabric · warp and weft
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textile industryfinancial services
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textile industryagrarian economy
Agriculture-dominated financial structure
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