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Textiles and leather clothe our bodies, cover our furniture, and adorn our homes. Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers produce these materials and fashion them into a wide range of products that we use in our daily lives.
Jobs range from those which employ computers, to those in which the worker operates large industrial machinery and smaller power equipment, to those which involve substantial handwork.
Most workers learn through on-the-job training. Employment is expected to decline in most detailed occupations in this group, due primarily to increased imports, the increased use of laborsaving machinery, and the creation of new fabrics that do not need as much processing. Earnings of most workers are low.
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