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Industries / Apparel Manufacturing

Table of Contents

1.	Significant Points

2.	Nature of the Industry

3.	Working Conditions

4.	Employment

5.	Occupations in the Industry

6.	Training & Advancement

7.	Earnings

8.	Outlook

9.	Additional Sources of Information

Significant Points


	More than 40 percent of all workers are sewing machine operators.

	Primarily due to increased imports and the adoption of new technology, apparel manufacturing is projected to lose 245,000 jobs-more than almost any other industry-over the 2002-12 period.

	Average earnings are below those of other manufacturing industries.

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Interesting Fact

In the 18th and 19th century, hatmakers used poisionous chemicals including mercury in their work. As result, many developed pathological symptons -- an estimated 10% went insane. Hence the term "mad as a hatter" and Lewis Carroll's character, the Mad Hatter.

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