Fraying Fabric: How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America

by James C. Benton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252086724
• ISBN13: 9780252086724
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"