The disappearing jobs list also reflects the continuing long-term decline of no- and low-skilled manufacturing jobs in the U.S.--sewing machine operators, engine assemblers, machine tool setters, home appliance repairers and textile knitting machine operators.
Police later seized control of the area, which is in southern China's manufacturing heartland and is home to migrants working in a number of textile factories.
And not just his home: Puig i Cadafalch's Casaramona textile plant - now the CaixaForum museum of contemporary art - looks more like some extravagant fortified palace.
The big design news in Stockholm this fall is the expansion of the flagship store of Svenskt Tenn, the 87-year-old home-furnishings label known for the modernist furniture and fantastical textile patterns of Austrian-born architect Josef Frank (1885-1967).