
The Empire of Cotton: Sven Beckert in conversation with Patrick French
Jaipur Bytes
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The Future of the Cotton Industry
The financial models that underlie the textile industry of a decade ago are starting to be dispersed. There's 350 million people engaged in some aspect of the words cotton industry growing cotton manufacturing cotton so it's not like that this suddenly has become an industry that nobody is is working in anymore. I'm always reluctant to predict the future and yes that this might happen but you know nothing is impossible if you look at spinning today obviously we don't need very many people to operate these modern spinning machines.
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