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    fibers. 4) Cotton fiber development happen in four stages. They are differentiation, Initiation, elongation, secondary cell wall deposition and…

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    was marked by increasing reliance on industrialism, transportation, and diversification. The South’s economy was almost solely dependent upon the production of cotton, only made profitable by the Cotton Gin and slave labor. By 1860, the North had more railroad track, canals, manufacturing and population than the South. The idea that cotton was the basis for the whole of the American economy was an illusion. When sectionalism exploded into Civil War, the agrarian South was doomed to inevitable…

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    the fast fashion industry promotes a culture of obsolescence. Consumers are constantly purchasing and consequently disposing of unwanted textiles. Cline mentions that many “second-hand stores only have about three weeks to a month to sell most of their donated clothes” (Ethical Fashion pg 3). These stores are given too many donations that most of the time they aren’t able to sell the garments they receive. Imagine a neighborhood containing one hundred families. Suppose that each family had about…

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    Kamal Limited Case Study

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    Introduction to the organization: Kamal limited is one of the first and important textile manufacturing houses of Pakistan. Established I 1950 in Faisalabad, Kamal limited am rigid operation, with in-house spinning, weaving, processing, printing, finishing and stitching facilities. Kamal limited introduced their first national creativity with now methodically much-admired Kamal lawn by Elan, followed by Elan Lawn by Zara Shahjahan on 2013. This was followed by the introduction of SO KAMAL, their…

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    Arvind Mills Case Study

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    shirting, voiles, khakis and knits, with a manufacturing capacity of 130mmt p.a. Arvind is the largest cotton textiles manufacturer in the country, with an installed fabric capacity of over 200mmt per annum. It is also one of the leading denim fabric manufacturers in the world. Concern:…

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    Invention of the Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney. The invention of the Cotton Gin made a drastic increase in the production of cotton. Markets expanded with more and more technology that would help with the production of cotton, leading to a drastic increase in slave labor. 3) The Invention of Railroads and Steam Engines Expanded markets, caused by increased cotton production, also led to the invention of railroads and steam engines. This was caused by the increased demand for cotton. Railroads…

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    specifically the invention of the cotton gin. After graduating from Yale in the late 1700s, Eli Whitney moved to Georgia and took up a job as a tutor to pay off his student debt. After failing as a tutor, Whitney was referred to his landlady by a friend as a “person of both mechanical ability and social skills” (Wren and Greenwood). Whitney’s landlady, a woman by the name of Catherine Greene, exploited his skills and asked him to devise a machine that could pick apart the cotton fibers…

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    and to countries, cotton, iron, and improved working conditions are examples of what changed the world, and began the mold of our modern society. The questions that I will answer are how did the Industrial Revolution Change European society, and how it made life better for some and worse for others. One of the driving forces behind the success of the Industrial Revolution was the rapid increase in cotton production. “In 1760 Britain had imported 2.5 million pounds of raw cotton, … By 1840,…

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    on tobacco, cotton, and sugar. These were also known as cash crops (Economy of the South 36). Second, since farmers didn’t pay slaves for their labor, their profits turn out to be falsely high (Economy of the South 36). Finally, because farmers were making so much money from growing cotton, they did not see the need to have manufacturing and industry. (Economy of the South 36). The two major cash crops, cotton and sugar, had an affect on the Civil War and the South’s economy.…

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    Ap World History Essay

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    central to forging of a new global economic order and eventually the emergence of capitalism” (Beckert, 37). Slavery became very important during this new system because it deported millions of African to the Americas because it helped to secure more cotton production. War capitalism needed the division of the world into inside and outside and they relied on the rich or the ones that had the power to divide these units. The inside and outside are very different, the inside is state enforced…

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