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antigone382

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Reply to winter is coming (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 8, 2013, 04:22 PM

Feb 2013

Add to that the fact that factories open and close all the time as they look to the global labor pool to minimize costs. There is no way to know whether the factory job you have today is going to be there when you can send production to an Export Processing Zone halfway around the world for pennies on the dollar in terms of labor costs, working conditions, and environmental standards.

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American Parents' Obsession With Status Is Keeping Kids Unemployed [View all] FarCenter Feb 2013 OP

There is zero evidence in this article that parents' perceptions are actually the problem. antigone382 Feb 2013 #1

I work with a number of manufacturers in a non-profit forum Jeff In Milwaukee Feb 2013 #8

A mechanical engineer who SheilaT Feb 2013 #10

MEs can take courses in welding, and some even specialize in it FarCenter Feb 2013 #11

If the pay were truly that good, kids would be flocking to their jobs. winter is coming Feb 2013 #2

+1 antigone382 Feb 2013 #7

A manufacturing business needs all types of skills upaloopa Feb 2013 #3

I would love to know where these 600,000 manufacturing jobs are that our midnight Feb 2013 #4

I don't think it is so much about status bluestateguy Feb 2013 #5

Wouldn't this be another example of a (free) market failure ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2013 #6

There's some truth to that. silverweb Feb 2013 #9

you don't send your kid to college so he can work at a factory Viva_La_Revolution Feb 2013 #12