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Friday 19th of April 2024

Manufacturing By one measure, the average manufacturing worker in the United States earned nine per cent less in 2015 than the average worker in 1973, while the economy over all grew by two hundred per cent. Sheelah Kolhatkar, New Yorker, October 23, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing Driving U.S. Factories: Foreign Robotics — — — — — — — — — — — Manufacturing rebound means buying modern machinery from overseas headline, Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing The factory is a device for making workmen hurry. Aldous Huxley, The Olive Tree  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. Warren Bennis © 2016 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing In all, there were more than 350,000 manufacturing establishments with no employee other than the owner in 2014, up almost 17% from 2004, according to the most recent Commerce Department data. By comparison, there were 292,543 establishments with other employees, down 12%. The shift creates a challenge for building back the number of jobs in the U.S. manufacturing sector. Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing  It is hard to believe that manu- facturing or information technology will ever recover in the West, no matter how many robots are installed, visas rescinded, trade agreements ripped up or walls built. Robert C. Allen © 2017 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing Remember in the old days they used to have “Made in USA” … We're going to start doing that again. Donald Trump, speaking about companies other than his and Ivanka's at a White House event, Made in America Day, which launched Made in America Week, which he promised would lead to Made in America Decades © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Manufacturing Valuable semi-skilled manufacturing jobs are not, for the most part, going to return to America, or anywhere else, because they were not simply shipped abroad. They were destroyed by new ways of boosting productivity and reducing costs which heightened the distinction between routine labour and the rest of manufacturing. There is no vice that can squeeze those genies back into their bottles. Economist, January 14, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com