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Fraying Fabric - How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America (Hardcover)
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Fraying Fabric - How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America (Hardcover)
Series: Working Class in American History
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The decline of the U.S. textile and apparel industries between the
1940s and 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the twenty-first
century's potent economic populism in America. James C. Benton
looks at how shortsighted trade and economic policy by labor,
business, and government undermined an employment sector that once
employed millions and supported countless communities. Starting in
the 1930s, Benton examines how the New Deal combined promoting
trade with weakening worker rights. He then moves to the
ineffective attempts to aid textile and apparel workers even as
imports surged, the 1974 pivot by policymakers and big business to
institute lowered trade barriers, and the deindustrialization and
economic devastation that followed. Throughout, Benton provides the
often-overlooked views of workers, executives, and federal
officials who instituted the United States' policy framework in the
1930s and guided it through the ensuing decades. Compelling and
comprehensive, Fraying Fabric explains what happened to textile and
apparel manufacturing and how it played a role in today's politics
of anger.
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