But textile workers at a venerable Egyptian spinning mill recently did something that was considered unthinkable.
Moreover, the global marketplace has displaced once steady jobs like seamstresses and textile workers.
Tom Quantrill(ph) says there are tens of thousands of people just like Jennings, former textile workers now making more in high-tech factories.
If steel gets its way, it will become harder to face down other powerful domestic protectionists, from textile workers to citrus growers.
The aim is to reduce the length of time textile workers can be employed as lower paid "apprentices" from three years to six months.
But nowadays the number of textile workers in South Carolina is shrinking rapidly, as car-manufacturing and tourism take a bigger role in the state's economy.
According to the South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union, in the last three years more than 18, 000 people have lost their jobs in the sector.
On 5 January 1976, the 10 textile workers were travelling home from work in the dark and rain on a minibus in the heart of rural County Armagh.
There's something like 600, 000 American textile workers looking for jobs.
It shows that America is willing to shield its textile workers from foreign competition even after the mesh of quotas that currently trammel the global textile industry is undone next year.
But according to Anti-Slavery International and the Dutch campaign group SOMO, who between them have interviewed more than 200 current or former Indian textile workers, widespread exploitation is common across India's textile industry.
They, first of all, these are - it's a largely Republican area, but more than that, they are furious at the idea that South Carolina is nothing but a bunch of laid-off textile workers.
Older than its famous neighbour, the Lalbaug Sarvajanik Utsav Mandal was founded by textile mill workers in 1928 and their Ganesha statue, the Mumbaicha Raja (King of Mumbai), includes a lavish backdrop inspired by famous landmarks across the country.
Mr Bersani's first move after his victory was to visit workers in a textile factory.
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These technical changes will have real job-supporting economic benefits for thousands of American workers in our textile and apparel industry, and will help boost economic growth in these developing regions.
The residents, for instance, of Kafue, an industrial town that once bustled with workers at its textile and nitrogen factories, now talk of unemployment, the cost of sending children to school and stinking garbage.
Its textile mills, public buildings and workers' housing are built in a harmonious style of high architectural standards and the urban plan survives intact, giving a vivid impression of Victorian philanthropic paternalism.
That is probably of little comfort to South Africa's ailing textile industry, or Mkalipi, and other workers like her.
The November fire at the Tazreen garment factory drew international attention to the conditions workers toil under in Bangladesh's textile industry.
But in Herning, an old textile center with Middle Eastern and Sri Lankan immigrants, flexicurity is said to have redirected loom workers into jobs making high-end kitchen cabinetry.
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