textile workers
Loom and needle
Textile workers are people employed in the production of fabrics and cloth—spinning fibers, weaving, dyeing, finishing, or operating machinery in mills and factories.
The term often carries historical weight, evoking industrial-era labor conditions: Textile workers organized some of the earliest labor unions.
Today it encompasses garment factory employees worldwide.
- fabric cuttingDividing textiles with blades
- sweatshopExploitative manufacturing workplace
- wage theftEmployer withholding earned compensation
- union organizingForming workplace collectives
- LudditeOne opposing technological progress
sewing · cotton · loom · sewing machine · factory worker · millhand · dyer · weaving · mills · dyeing · seamstress · tailor · garment factories · assembly line · shuttles · wool · Industrial Revolution · piece work
- workersemployee, employees, laborer, laborers, wage earner
- blue-collar jobsfactory work, factory worker, construction, farm hand, miners
- cotton textilescotton, cotton gin, cotton mills, cotton yarn, cotton cloth
- industry in literaturemill towns, factory girls, iron works
- Irish DiasporaIrish immigration, Irish Americans, Irish immigrants, Irish diaspora, emigration
- labor historyAFL-CIO, labor movement, CIO, laborers, unionization
textile workersfarmers
Land-cultivating occupation holders
agricultural workers · miners · fishermen · lumberjacks · construction workers
textile workersmill owners
Proprietors of processing plants
industrialists · capitalists · shareholders · management · overseers