As the first building to be built from an iron frame, the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings in England is a forerunner of all iron ...

In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at why fast fashion must end. Specifically, I look at the horrors of both worker and planetary exploitation of the fashion industry. The ...

Before the Industrial Revolution, making textiles was a slow process carried ... with workers at the machines for 12 hours a day. A 19th century engraving of James Watt's steam engine.

They deployed thousands of troops at factory gates and made breaking ... but his story still resonated with 19th-century textile workers. In addition to naming their movement after him, they ...

Massachusetts’s early-19th century factories kept workers at ... In the 1920s, New Bedford’s textile industry collapsed under the pressure of newer, even lower wage competitors in the American ...

In the folio (part of last year’s Book of Gold show) from the luminous 17th century Kanchana ... of thousands of textile trademarks were registered in Britain in the late 19th and early 20th ...