The textile industry, for example, employed in 2008 an estimated 34 million people in the country.
They brought their wives in the 1970s, just as the city's textile industry collapsed.
Bradford's Pakistanis began to arrive in the late 1950s to work in the textile industry.
In China, the largest clothing manufacturer in the world, the textile industry is also a major polluter.
The province of Prato has 10, 900 resident Chinese nationals, many of them working in the textile industry.
Later, it secured a near-monopoly in the still more profitable trade in alum, vital to the textile industry.
In 1983, low-wage competition in China, Vietnam and India brought the Indonesian textile industry to a crisis point.
Mr Crowley told a news conference in Dhaka that he understands how important the textile industry is to Bangladesh.
That is probably of little comfort to South Africa's ailing textile industry, or Mkalipi, and other workers like her.
Rising costs and the end of quotas have greatly changed business in the textile industry in the past decade.
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Its textile industry, still dominated by smaller firms, had not geared up for the post-quota world as China's had.
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The two Congressmen, Joseph Crowley and James McDermott, did not announce any concrete measures to help the ailing Bangladeshi textile industry.
The November fire at the Tazreen garment factory drew international attention to the conditions workers toil under in Bangladesh's textile industry.
There's a historical basis of this in what happened in the textile industry in the early part of the 20th century.
Both the textile industry and the agriculture sector have felt the hit.
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The textile industry, a tried-and-tested path to development, is also trammelled by restrictive quotas, which rich countries are phasing out rather slowly.
But a bunch of them mentioned, well, I was laid off because the textile industry has moved away here in North Carolina.
He says (citing data from UNIDO, whatever that is) that China employed 7.3 million people in its textile industry as recently as 1997.
America's textile industry, which enjoys considerable protection from high tariffs, has already described Mr Bush's plan as a formula for the industry's demise.
"Whereas China wiped out Korea's textile industry, Bangladesh or Cambodia won't wipe out China's, " says Ben Simpfendorfer of Silk Road Economics in Hong Kong.
Dante de Oliveira, the state's governor, hopes success with cotton output has increased fivefold and jobs doubled to 25, 000 since 1996 will now attract a textile industry.
Once, U.S. cotton growers' biggest customer was the U.S. textile industry.
Bangladesh's textile industry is also facing challenges in keeping wages low.
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.
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.
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.
It shows that America is willing to shield its textile workers from foreign competition even after the mesh of quotas that currently trammel the global textile industry is undone next year.
Once upon a time the answer might have come from the state's textile industry, which is currently in high dudgeon about Mr Bush's willingness to let textile imports take local jobs away.
But according to Anti-Slavery International and the Dutch campaign group SOMO, who between them have interviewed more than 200 current or former Indian textile workers, widespread exploitation is common across India's textile industry.
Those that have managed to build a textile industry, such as Lesotho and Mauritius, have suffered from Chinese competition and the end of the Multi-Fibre Agreement, which set quotas for exports from poor countries.
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