This shift to the South will collectively lead to thousands of construction jobs and several hundred full-time factory positions, say proponents.
These are the kinds of people who once held relatively low-paying, low-proficiency factory positions in industries like electronics, textiles, basic housewares, furniture, steel, and paper products.
A couple of million factory positions have disappeared in the short time since we raised our glasses to toast the incoming century.
"I thought I was too old to find something". A 56-year-old mother of two, she shook off her funk and began applying for other factory positions.
Over the past decade, as manufacturing employment shrank across the Rust Belt, Warsaw displayed a rare resilience, steadily adding well-paying factory positions that do not require a college degree.
Many of those jobs remain lost — since 1979, when the number of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. peaked at nineteen and a half million, the country is still down some seven million factory positions, all told.
Since March , 2010 when manufacturing employment in the U.S. hit a trough of 11.45 million jobs, nearly a million new factory positions have been created, most of them in the Southern states, particularly North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
Now that service jobs have replaced many of the old factory positions for a population of about 200,000 in the city and suburbs, art has become a tradition to build on.
The Poles had worked illegally at first in the worst jobs and then, after Poland's accession to the EU, moved through agencies into long-term factory positions in a large meat plant, where they had joined the union.
