G.E.'s manufacturing work has moved South, or overseas.
Then Western firms started sending manufacturing work abroad on a large scale.
But the company said it was temporarily reducing manufacturing work while it monitored the situation.
There is not enough manufacturing work left, officials said, to absorb Latex's employees.
"We send them our engineering, they get the manufacturing work and experience".
For individuals who have lost factory jobs, it's clear why a decline in manufacturing work matters.
Complicating the issue, hidden subcontractors do much of the country's textile manufacturing work.
We're both interested in working with educational institutions to help prepare the manufacturing work force of the future.
He says his perception of manufacturing work was laborers tethered to machines, doing boring repetitive tasks in grimy factories.
Routinised jobs, such as call centre or basic manufacturing work, are most exposed to international competition and automation.
At the start of the year, the justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, announced an expansion of mainly manufacturing work inside prisons.
