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Threadbare explores the garment industry’s relationship to labor and culture in a variety of locations across the world. In this exclusive excerpt, appearing online for the first time, Anne Elizabeth Moore and Delia Jean look at the history of one village in Austria that grew up around the textile industry.
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Copyright (2016) by Anne Elizabeth Moore (writing) and Delia Jean (illustrations). Not to be reposted without permission of the publisher, Microcosm Publishing.
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