Many of these commercial and productive activities are new, opened by community members who lost their factory jobs, while, paradoxically, multinational companies such as Avon and Dannon realize new markets in these same neighborhoods.

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Plans for the new factory have transformed a community that during the past ten years has been becoming a ghost town.

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In 1987 after being laid off from an auto factory job I went through a short course at a community college in Michigan.

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Even if you're not going to a four-year college, needing to get some advanced training at a community college -- even if you want to work in a factory today you now have to know computers, you have to have math skills, you have to be able to communicate effectively.

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Then Siemens opened a gas turbine factory in Charlotte, and formed a partnership with Central Piedmont Community College.

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Bournville Village was built around the Cadbury factory in Birmingham as a vision of an ideal village where residents participated in community events.

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Immediately the Syracuse, NY area embraced the unique business and John and his mobile, wood fired pizza factory could be found each weekend at cultural events, catering office parties and weddings or at community fairs and festivals.

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