Essentially, textile production was no longer a skilled craft but an industrial process that could be manned by semi-skilled labour.
But in the refugee camps we have a source, still largely untapped, of unskilled and semi-skilled labour.
Old-style movements for workers' control are no longer feasible in a world of transnationals and global production and semi-skilled labour.
In large-scale factory production, jiggering and jolleying are usually automated, which allows the operations to be carried out by semi-skilled labour.
Initially, people were still doing semi-skilled labor in their own homes.
Some could move from unskilled factory jobs to semi-skilled labor at slightly better pay.
"How about people that aren't professional people, the various kinds of skilled or semi-skilled labor, and tradesmen and so forth."
In 1987 there was a severe urban unemployment problem, and a virtually unlimited supply of unskilled and semi-skilled labor.
The embroidery industry is also one of the major source of income for semi-skilled labor.
Since early 2010, all unskilled and semi-skilled labour must be sourced from within Namibia in order to qualify for government tenders.