President Donald Trump's campaign of imposing tariffs on trading partners is unlikely to bring back the kind of manufacturing ...

In the early 20th century, over 100 companies throughout ... 40-hour work week in its factories, History.com reported. More than 6 million women stepped up in response to the shortage of male ...

During the early 20th century, women's employment was affected ... more women got involved in the wartime effort in factories and other professions previously dominated by men.

By the early 20th century, designers added lace and frills ... In Manhattan alone, there were over 450 textile factories, employing approximately 40,000 garment workers, many of them immigrants.

For much of the 20th Century Derry was a world leader in shirt production and the city's factory girls were the driving force. Right up to the early 2000s there were still hundreds of people ...