This would still leave UAW members making 40% more than the average American manufacturing worker.

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These jobs were expected to create more service jobs (retailers, schools, plumbers, etc.) supporting the manufacturing worker.

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And in that stuff he got right we can see the answer to this little conundrum: why Silicon Valley interns are getting, for three months work, about what a Chinese manufacturing worker gets in two years.

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Over the past 60 years, real manufacturing output per worker has nearly quadrupled.

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Worker committees run the manufacturing plants and profit-sharing schemes are available to all staff members.

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For generations, manufacturing was the ticket to a better life for the American worker.

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Simply because in much to most of manufacturing it is now cheaper to buy a machine than it is to hire a worker.

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And critics worry that factory safety and worker protections won't improve as long as apparel companies chase the lowest manufacturing costs.

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Ltd. gave a day's off to workers at their manufacturing facilities in the Gurgaon-Manesar, a New Delhi neighborhood which has seen recent violent worker problems.

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