[Will88]

I doubt you could even build a textile mill in the US anymore. You couldn’t get it past the EPA.

Quite a sweeping, convenient and totally unsupported statement.

I knew families who operated sewing plants for several decades until the cheaper foreign imports put them all out of business. None ever mentioned regulations as the problem.

Their labor cost was around $10.00 per hour and plants in Asia were paying about $0.50 per hour or less, twenty or so years ago. And sewing is fairly labor intensive.

[vette6387]

“I knew families who operated sewing plants for several decades until the cheaper foreign imports put them all out of business. “

I guess you don’t know the difference between a sewing plant and a textile mill. They are as different a business as there could be. The only common thread is that they both involve thread. Textile mills involve chemicals, and potential water contamination, the EPA has driven them out of business.

[Daveinyork]

My dad worked in the textile industry for his uncle, whomanaged a knitting mill that moved from NYC to escape from the union. I worked in the warehouse during my vacations from school, and I worked in others. So what?

The sewing is tedious, low paying labor, and welfare is more profitable, and the knitting machines were noisy, and boring to operate.

[cynwoody]

Their labor cost was around $10.00 per hour and plants in Asia were paying about $0.50 per hour or less, twenty or so years ago. And sewing is fairly labor intensive.

Sewing isn't something humans were meant to do. And, hopefully, soon they won't have to.