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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (211828)11/16/2004 6:36:11 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1583976
 
Not just at the low end of the scale.

Manufacturing jobs OTOH are not something that is likely to grow in the US esp. basic manufacturing jobs that someone without extensive education or training can perform. Part of this is do to competition, but the biggest reason is greater productivity. Manufacturing output in the US is on a long term trend up while at the same time manufacturing employment is on a long term trend down. Its similar to how in the past agriculture employed most "average Joes" and now it employees very few people. Manufacturing covers more areas than agriculture does so I don't imagine it will employ less people than agriculture in the even remotely foreseeable future but the tend downwards could be similar, if perhaps slightly less pronounced, then the earlier downward trend in agricultural employment. It just takes less people to make things these days, even though we are making more things.

Tim
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