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Gorin-Smith studied the impact of the Fruit of the Loom plant on Taylor County during the years from 1952 until layoffs began in 1997, and the plant closed at the end of 1998. With overtime compensation, some factory workers made more money than schoolteachers, according to Gorin-Smith. "The Factory, as the townspeople called the company, earlier seemed the ticket to economic stability in Campbellsville. A victim of [[globalization]], the plant nevertheless shut down and moved to [[Latin America]], but [[Amazon.com]] moved into the community to replace some of the lost jobs. Not long afterward, another mainstay of the local economy, the Indiana-based Batesville Casket Company closed its Campbellsville factory. Gorin-Smith observed that in the rural area surrounding Campbellsville "there are a lot of brick houses. I call those 'Fruit of the Loom' houses or 'Factory' houses. The men farmed, and the women worked at the factory. Factory money built those houses, not farm money."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/36/kentucky.html?page=0%2C1|author=Charles Fishman |title=Same Place, Different World |date=June 30, 2000|publisher=fastcompany.com|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref>

Gorin-Smith studied the impact of the Fruit of the Loom plant on Taylor County during the years from 1952 until layoffs began in 1997, and the plant closed at the end of 1998. With overtime compensation, some factory workers made more money than schoolteachers, according to Gorin-Smith. "The Factory, as the townspeople called the company, earlier seemed the ticket to economic stability in Campbellsville. A victim of [[globalization]], the plant nevertheless shut down and moved to [[Latin America]], but [[Amazon.com]] moved into the community to replace some of the lost jobs. Not long afterward, another mainstay of the local economy, the Indiana-based Batesville Casket Company closed its Campbellsville factory. Gorin-Smith observed that in the rural area surrounding Campbellsville "there are a lot of brick houses. I call those 'Fruit of the Loom' houses or 'Factory' houses. The men farmed, and the women worked at the factory. Factory money built those houses, not farm money."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/36/kentucky.html?page=0%2C1|author=Charles Fishman |title=Same Place, Different World |date=June 30, 2000|publisher=fastcompany.com|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref>

Gorin-Smith recalls that the city of Campbellsville had planned to construct a sewer system to treat wastewater from the Fruit of the Loom plant. Then [[Mayor]] [[Robert L. Miller]] had consulted with William F. "Bill" Farley, who purchased the company in 1985. According to Gorin-Smith, Farley promised Miller that the Campbellsville plant would remain operational. The closing, however, was completed as Miller, after thirty-three years in office, lost reelection in 1998 to Paul E. Osborne, a Campbellsville [[real estate]] agent. "That really hurt Bob to be betrayed like that," said Gorin-Smith.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cknj.com/content/community-icon-dies-age-83​

Gorin-Smith recalls that the city of Campbellsville had planned to construct a sewer system to treat wastewater from the Fruit of the Loom plant. Then [[Mayor]] [[Robert L. Miller]] had consulted with William F. "Bill" Farley, who purchased the company in 1985. According to Gorin-Smith, Farley promised Miller that the Campbellsville plant would remain operational. The closing, however, was completed as Miller, after thirty-three years in office, lost reelection in 1998 to [[Paul E. Osborne]], a Campbellsville [[real estate]] agent. "That really hurt Bob to be betrayed like that," said Gorin-Smith.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cknj.com/content/community-icon-dies-age-83​

|author=Rebecca Cassell|title=Community icon dies at age 83: Robert L. Miller was mayor of Campbellsville for 33 yearspublisher=''Central Kentucky News-Journal''|date=February 12, 2011|accessdate=February 21, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref>​

|author=Rebecca Cassell|title=Community icon dies at age 83: Robert L. Miller was mayor of Campbellsville for 33 yearspublisher=''Central Kentucky News-Journal''|date=February 12, 2011|accessdate=February 21, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref>​