the hiring of children in factories for low wages
The American textile industry was in every sense a child of the British factory system. In 1790 Samuel Slater, a British mechanic, introduced the first successful American cotton-spinning mill in...
its cheaper than having it in the US
Textiles are woven fabrics or cloth. All garment industries use textiles to create their products.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing fabricated textile products, not elsewhere classified