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Title: Manufacturing Employment: Fact and Fiction
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Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: Despite employing only 11 percent of all workers and 15 percent of male workers today, manufacturing industries are at the center of most discussions of how to grow the American economy. This is because, in the minds of many, the economy is about producing things, which leads to other economic activities-advertising, researching, transporting goods to market, and retailing. Also, just 50 years ago manufacturing industries employed 36 percent of male workers. Given that the 1950s and 1960s were prosperous, many people tie the explosive growth of the middle class after World War II to the relatively high wages of male manufacturing workers.
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Authors: Rose, Stephen J
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure
Countries: United States