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Burlington Industries
Burlington Industries was an American textile manufacturer headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, founded by J. Spencer Love in 1923 and once described as the world's largest textile company.
J.P. Stevens & Co.
J.P. Stevens & Co. was an American textile manufacturer founded in 1813 in Andover, Massachusetts, known for the 20-year union organizing campaign and consumer boycott that inspired the film Norma Rae.
Samuel Slater
Samuel Slater (1768-1835), English-born textile manufacturer called the father of the American Industrial Revolution, built the first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill at Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1790-1793 and created the family-labor Rhode Island System.