mill-owners

Seriously, from what I've heard about mill towns like Burnley and Bolton it sounds like US-style segregation is more of a problem there - largely because in the 1960s, the government and the mill-owners made a massive effort to transplant entire villages from Pakistan and dump the inhabitants in geographically segregated parts of town.

Trevor Phillips Not a sheep 2007

In the late twenties he was opposed to the exploitation of the textile workers of Ahmedabad by the mill-owners, but he was not found of a strike to end it.

RELEVANCE OF NON-VIOLENCE AND SATYAGRAHA OF GANDHI TODAY 2007

Our imprisoned Captain announced, in smart and emphatic language in his prospectus, that the time had come at last when it was necessary for the gentlemen of England to band together in defence of their common rights and their glorious order, menaced on all sides by foreign revolutions, by intestine radicalism, by the artful calumnies of mill-owners and cotton-lords, and the stupid hostility of the masses whom they gulled and led.

The History of Pendennis 2006

None applauded his perseverance, or hailed his success; though the mill-owners were glad of it, trusting that the terrors of Law vindicated would henceforward paralyse the sinister valour of disaffection.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

To you - to the clergy perhaps, but not to us mill-owners.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

There were others, too, sons of farmers or mill-owners.

The Virgin and the Gypsy 2003

Numbers representing workers in the industry are presented in terms of "cotton spinners and sizers" or "cotton weavers, mill-owners and managers."

Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India 2001

Several of the more influential inhabitants of Haworth and the neighbourhood were mill-owners; they remonstrated pretty sharply with him, but he believed that his conduct was right and persevered in it.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

Even Robert Owen hoped to get his brother mill-owners to see the light.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

Even Robert Owen hoped to get his brother mill-owners to see the light.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999