The lure of slave labor seldom entails educated or qualified help. Ambitions will never be satisfied paying minimum to dedicated servants. More recently, mills nationwide were shipped to China or Mexico, where they promptly ran into counterproductive snafus. These migrations cost Rhode Island 500,000 jobs and decimated all of New England. Downtown retail stores fell to suburban malls. Costume jewelry manufacturers once employed 16,000 residents, now only 7,000.
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Another such exodus occurred during The Great Depression in the 1930's.
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Brings into question, "Who won?" because it was a net loss for the North in jobs and lives. Many closed because of Civil War Reconstruction in the South, which relocated them below the Mason-Dixon Line nearer to fields where cotton was sourced. This state had numerous clothing, dye, fabric and thread mills, 29 on Blackstone River alone, but spread across state in Ashaway, Centerville, Central Falls (11 closures in decade between 19), Cranston, Crompton, Cumberland, Lincoln, Olneyville, North Providence, Pawtucket, Providence, West Warwick, and Woonsocket. Reminded of great/late 38 Studios, which lasted as long as a newbie warrior in a Halo or World of Warcraft tournament, shouldn’t some sense be made out of collateral carnage among such market economy debacles? Or has the very idea of a company of coworkers working cooperatively become obsolete in an entrepreneurial/narcissistic era plagued by continuous upheaval?
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Are ruins romantic? Rhode Island is grossly littered with empty mills and famous failures.