Re: Shirt factories
[Re: hippie]
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10/01/20 05:37 PM
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Got to thinking about all the shirt factories we use to have in our area years ago and am wondering if other areas of the U.S. had them??
Growing up in the 60's and 70's, most all women around here that worked, worked in what we just called a shirt factory. Its hard to think of a town around here that didn't have one. They started closing at a fast pace in the 90's and were almost completely gone by the turn of the century. They're all closed near here now. Neoliberalism capitalism. Why pay your aunt $15/hr and have her complain about it when an Indonesian girl will did it for $1/hr and be grateful.
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Re: Shirt factories
[Re: warrior]
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10/01/20 09:43 PM
10/01/20 09:43 PM
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This area was mostly mill towns. Cotton mill towns that made the cloth and sewed it into clothing. Griffin, Ga had three mills. All gone now. I think we talked about this before by my great something grandfather started the mill in your area in Commerce, GA when it was still Harmony Grove.
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Re: Shirt factories
[Re: hippie]
#7006281
10/02/20 08:09 AM
10/02/20 08:09 AM
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I wish we could make more of our stuff in the USA and Canada once again. Stuff from China is starting to get expensive. We may be able to compete if we cut some of the government regulations. Not sure, I don't know much about manufacturing.
wanna be goat farmer.
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Re: Shirt factories
[Re: hippie]
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10/02/20 02:16 PM
10/02/20 02:16 PM
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Posts: 5,719 Williamsport, Pa.
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Here the workers were all paid piece meal by the count. Yep they made undies and shirts around here.....jk
Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free. What's supposed to be ain't always is. Hopper Hunter
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Re: Shirt factories
[Re: hippie]
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10/02/20 02:20 PM
10/02/20 02:20 PM
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both my grandmas worked in shirt factories in the 70s
Trapping is what built North America, why take that away?
pro second amendment-- pro God-- pro Trump-- Pro America!
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Re: Shirt factories
[Re: hippie]
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10/02/20 05:02 PM
10/02/20 05:02 PM
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Big Yank was a shirt factory and Muskins, Willits, & Johnson Bailey were local shoe factories when I was a kid in the 60's.
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