Industry Analysis The textile industry has been around for thousands of years. Technologically speaking, weaving looms and textile production in itself was one of the first industrial accomplishments. Prior to mechanized manufacturing, most textiles were produced in the home. As early as 4000 BC, people in the Middle East, China and Africa were producing several varieties of textiles (FORENSIC PHOTOGRAPHY BRINGS COLOR BACK TO ANCIENT TEXTILES, http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/textiles.htm). The process of producing textiles has changed dramatically in the last three hundred years. Textile mills provided a streamlined, more efficient way of producing large quantities of affordable textiles. The industrial revolution aided in the development of new factories. From that point, the majority of textiles were produced in mills as opposed to individual homes. Mills originally employed a great number of weavers that produced textiles by hand. The Industrial Revolution spawned a number of new inventions that would revolutionize the textile manufacturing industry. The introduction of steam powered machinery, and inventions like the flying shuttle, triggered dramatic increases in production capacity and eventually lead to the elimination of hand-weaving on a company level. (Business and Economics. Leading Issues in Economic Development, Oxford University Press US.)These inventions made manufacturing more efficient and reduced the cost of production. The industrial revolution of the 1800s lead to a production motivated textile industry. In the 1900s the industry worked its employees to the maximum in order to stay competitive and keep production high. The term “Sweat shop” can be used to describe working conditions in the twentieth century. Conditions were cramped an ...