Editing Derry (section)

===History===
The economy of the district was based significantly on the textile industry until relatively recently. For many years women were commonly the sole wage earners working in the shirt factories while the men in comparison had high levels of unemployment.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.recirca.com/backissues/c95/dwc.shtml |title=Women, art and architecture appear to have achieved a rare symbiosis in a new project in Derry |date=Spring 2001 |first=Declan |last=Sheehan |magazine=Circa Art Magazine |issue=95 |pages=38–41 |issn=0263-9475 |access-date=5 September 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060528155727/http://www.recirca.com/backissues/c95/dwc.shtml |archive-date=28 May 2006}}</ref> This led to significant male emigration.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bloodysundaytrust.org/eduhistory.htm |title=History of the Bogside |publisher=Bloody Sunday Trust |access-date=5 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060823085030/http://www.bloodysundaytrust.org/eduhistory.htm |archive-date=23 August 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The history of shirt making in the city dates to 1831, said to have been started by William Scott and his family who first exported shirts to [[Glasgow]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Ciaran |last=Roddy |publisher=Paddock Designs |url=http://www.geocities.com/historyofshirtmakinginderry/shirtmakinginderry.htm |title=Derry's association with shirt making |via=GeoCities.com |access-date=5 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071225221059/http://www.geocities.com/historyofshirtmakinginderry/shirtmakinginderry.htm |archive-date=25 December 2007}}</ref> Within 50 years, shirt making in the city was the most prolific in the UK with garments being exported all over the world. It was known so well that the industry received a mention in ''[[Das Kapital]]'' by [[Karl Marx]], when discussing the factory system:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Marx/mrxCpAtoc.html |title=Capital: A Critique of Political Economy |volume=Vol. I: ''The Process of Capitalist Production'' |at=Part IV, Chapter XV |first=Karl |last=Marx |author-link=Karl Marx |date=1867 |publisher=[[Charles H. Kerr & Co.]] |location=Chicago |via=EconLib.org |access-date=5 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821064500/http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Marx/mrxCpAtoc.html |archive-date=21 August 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|The shirt factory of Messrs. Tille at Londonderry, which employs 1,000 operatives in the factory itself, and 9,000 people spread up and down the country and working in their own houses.}}

The industry reached its peak in the 1920s employing around 18,000 people.<ref name="Lacey" /> In modern times, however, the textile industry declined due largely to lower Asian wages.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.derryjournal.com/features/Thriving-industry-is-no-more.4184442.jp |title=Thriving industry is no more: Glory days of shirt factories recalled |date=13 June 2008 |work=Derry Journal Online |access-date=15 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926054913/http://www.derryjournal.com/features/Thriving-industry-is-no-more.4184442.jp |archive-date=26 September 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

A long-term foreign employer in the area is [[DuPont (1802–2017)|Du Pont]], which has been based at Maydown since 1958, its first European production facility.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://heritage.dupont.com/touchpoints/tp_1958/depth.shtml |title=First European Plant&nbsp;–1958 |work=Heritage.DuPont.com |publisher=[[DuPont]] |access-date=5 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060317060124/http://heritage.dupont.com/touchpoints/tp_1958/depth.shtml |archive-date=17 March 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Originally [[Neoprene]] was manufactured at Maydown and subsequently followed by [[Hypalon]]. More recently [[Lycra]] and [[Kevlar]] production units were active.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.northernireland.gov.uk/ |title=Du Pont (UK) Ltd |publisher=[[Northern Ireland Executive]] |access-date=5 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060914110241/http://www.northernireland.gov.uk/ |archive-date=14 September 2006 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=December 2023|reason=The NI Executive's homepage has nothing to do with claims about production by DuPont.}} Thanks to a worldwide demand for Kevlar, which is made at the plant, the facility undertook a £40&nbsp;million upgrade to expand its global Kevlar production.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2004/1116/56793-dupont/ |title=40 jobs from DuPont Derry expansion |date=16 November 2004 |publisher=RTÉ |access-date=13 November 2022}}</ref>