Moreover, modern car assembly relies heavily on pre-assembly of parts such as entire dash boards with the stereo, the instrument panel and the steering column already built in.

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Hence, both assembly and parts-making for this pickup will be done in low-wage countries.

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Now a supply chain of myriad links runs all around the world, connecting designers, chipmakers, car-parts firms and assembly lines.

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Henry Ford's automated car-assembly line spawned a galaxy of parts factories filled with workers.

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Its four factories (two in Italy, one in Spain and one in America), which produced about 40, 000 machines last year, are essentially assembly lines, as few parts are made in-house anymore.

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Large parts of the Assembly group feel marginalised, belittled, betrayed - take your pick - by a succession of announcements from Whitehall that they say have blindsided the party's AMs. The green paper on Assembly electoral reform, regional pay, regional benefits, the Supreme Court referral for the byelaws bill and several others have left them scrambling to try and defend positions they're often diametrically opposed to.

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In addition, when it did fund a place at a specialist centre, the assembly government will ask social services departments and local health boards to pay for the non-educational parts of the course.

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The growth in container traffic in the 1990s powered America's booming economy as retailers such as Wal-Mart bought goods from China and manufacturers such as Dell sourced parts from Asia for assembly in America.

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Those lower-paid workers were also supposed to be confined to certain job categories like janitors or parts assembly that could have been easily outsourced.

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