(About 40% of the manufacturing workforce was then unionised).
Since 2000, nearly five million American manufacturing jobs have disappeared– a third of the entire manufacturing workforce.
The country was indebted to a large conscripted army and needed a co-operative manufacturing workforce.
GM's US manufacturing workforce is to shrink from 113,000 three years ago to just 38,000 by 2011.
Many toil in factories: in 2001 white British men comprised 89% of the overall workforce but 93% of the manufacturing workforce.
About 1,400 jobs that we know of are going – it is a huge slice of the manufacturing workforce, about 2% – since Monday.
The largest industry is paper and paper products, which includes a large printing industry and employs more than a third of the local manufacturing workforce.
Traditional artisan-based cottage industries engage the majority of the manufacturing workforce of Jharkhand, particularly in Hazaribag, Ranchi, East and West Singhbhum, and Jamshedpur districts.
Nor does it bode well for Germany's biggest industry, which employs one in seven of the country's manufacturing workforce.
Massive migration from Europe to the United States created a manufacturing workforce in Brooklyn, to churn out ale, coffee, soap, and Brillo pads — and Gair made boxes right beside them.
