To say that they are hard jobs is not to say that they are skilled jobs. Believe, as the son of a man who labored 44 years in a factory and then gasped for breath with emphysema for the next 12 years, I would never demean the workers, but the work itself is demeaning to say the least.
michael yates
Brad De Long wrote:
> >Friends,
> >
> >I do not think tht workersin the Mexico Ford plant are skilled at all.
> >Work in
> >an auto plant requires very little skill with very few exceptions. that's why
> >Ford could move in the first place. High productivity (from the technology)
> >and low wages from the huge pool of surplus labor.
> >
> >Michael Yates
>
> Work in an auto plant requires a high tolerance for noise, a high tolerance
> for boredom, a substantial amount of manual dexterity, and substantial
> familiarity with how to handle machine technologies.
>
> Assembly-line jobs are not easy jobs.
>
> Hermosillo is interesting because it is unusual: were it usual, the auto
> industry would have moved to Mexico and the rest of Latin America a
> generation ago.
>
> Brad DeLong