Margaret McManus was laid off last year when the textile mill she worked for closed.
Edwards, the son of a textile mill worker and shopkeeper, was the first in his family to attend college.
Fall River, Massachusetts, an old textile mill town, never recovered from its loss as a textile hub in the 1970s.
Mr Buffett has managed to deliver his investors an average return of just under 24% a year since 1965, when he bought a small textile mill called Berkshire Hathaway as his investment vehicle.
Instead of opening the show with the famous dance prelude at the fairground, Hytner brought the curtain up on the claustrophobic, shadowy New England textile mill where Julie Jordan and her friend Carrie Pipperidge work.
Saltaire World Heritage Site is best known for being a Victorian project in urban regeneration: a neoclassical village on the edges of Bradford, built by industrialist Titus Salt to improve the living conditions for his textile mill employees.
Older than its famous neighbour, the Lalbaug Sarvajanik Utsav Mandal was founded by textile mill workers in 1928 and their Ganesha statue, the Mumbaicha Raja (King of Mumbai), includes a lavish backdrop inspired by famous landmarks across the country.
For its part, old Labour will be mindful that the word "socialist" first appeared in November 1827 in the Co-operative magazine - a vehicle for the ideas of Robert Owen, who sought to run his textile mill in Lanark on co-operative lines.
Edwards, who was born in South Carolina, has also made a point of stressing his modest roots, often describing himself as the son of a textile mill worker and noting that he was the first one in his family to go to college.
By contrast, Georgia has nearly one-quarter of national textile product mill employment, so any employment impacts in that industry are assigned disproportionately to Georgia.
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But textile workers at a venerable Egyptian spinning mill recently did something that was considered unthinkable.
The former jute mill in the Blackness area of the city opened as a museum in 1996 and is dedicated to the textile industry that once dominated the city's economy.
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