Bradford's Pakistanis began to arrive in the late 1950s to work in the textile industry.
The province of Prato has 10, 900 resident Chinese nationals, many of them working in the textile industry.
Rising costs and the end of quotas have greatly changed business in the textile industry in the past decade.
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There's a historical basis of this in what happened in the textile industry in the early part of the 20th century.
"In reality, we have issues within the supply chain because there are several systems out there, and we have breaks within the data process, " said Reinhold Wawrzynek, chief executive of Mobiwork AG, a Munich-based system-software provider in the textile industry.
For many textile companies, turning to the military is a way to survive in the beleaguered textile industry, which has been hammered by cheaper Asian exports.
Later, it secured a near-monopoly in the still more profitable trade in alum, vital to the textile industry.
The former jute mill in the Blackness area of the city opened as a museum in 1996 and is dedicated to the textile industry that once dominated the city's economy.
Mr Crowley told a news conference in Dhaka that he understands how important the textile industry is to Bangladesh.
That might be true to some extent, but the textile and apparel industry in Brazil and throughout Latin America has lost market share abroad and domestically to China competitors.
Those few miners that were lucky to find other jobs were joining temporary employment agencies with no guarantee of regular income or the local textile factories where wages were far lower than they had earned in the mining industry.
In 1983, low-wage competition in China, Vietnam and India brought the Indonesian textile industry to a crisis point.
They brought their wives in the 1970s, just as the city's textile industry collapsed.
The November fire at the Tazreen garment factory drew international attention to the conditions workers toil under in Bangladesh's textile industry.
But a bunch of them mentioned, well, I was laid off because the textile industry has moved away here in North Carolina.
He said there might be a "glimmer of hope" for the industry as other textile businesses in the region had seen a recent upturn in business.
Five-axis tools are used for the production of precision components in the aerospace industry, in making gas and diesel engines, automobile parts, and throughout the medical, textile, oil, glass, heavy industrial equipment and tool industries.
The textile industry, for example, employed in 2008 an estimated 34 million people in the country.
Like many others in the region, the neighbouring spa town of Ilkley is highly dependent on tourism following a general decline in West Yorkshire s textile industry.
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