President Obama recently plans to unveil two new manufacturing institutes in Chicago and Detroit as part of a larger initiative.
Each institute will function as a “teaching factory,” the official said, and will provide training for workers while also helping companies get the expertise and equipment they need to offer new products and manufacturing processes.
This highlight the determination to create new and "high paying" manufacturing job in the US job market of the president. The goal of this initiative is to create a national network of up to 45 manufacturing institutions.
To me, a "high-paying" manufacturing job is somewhat of a paradox. What do you think?
I think that Hung has a point. It seems like capital in the U.S. is becoming productive like no other time in history. The advanced machines available today can usually do more labor than a worker could which is why many manufacturing jobs are being replaced by machinery or outsourced. I think that if this program has some tilt towards service jobs (which can't be replaced easily by machinery) the program would be more effective.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tyler here. While this creates more jobs and may help for an easier transition between the manufacturing-based and service-based, machines are more productive than humans, meaning that more profits would be made when machines take over manufacturing jobs. We don't have the level of technology for service-based jobs to be taken over, so people now need more education to work for these jobs. If this program could provide that training while allowing people to make some form of money in the meantime, it would certainly help ease the population into this new economy.
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