#textile

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#because #broke #economy #entire #industrial

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs. ↗

— Howard Coble

#cafta #demise #domestic #fear #i

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection. ↗

— Anna Sui

#ever #every #every time #give #i

China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#banks #china #currency #exports #fair

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#composed #good #good prose #musical #prose

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#beaten #being #car #five #group

There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#businesses #children #did #jobs #streets