In the 2000s alone America shed nearly 6m factory jobs. Such work often offered high-school leavers a route to a stable, ...

As countries grow richer, automation raises output per worker, consumption shifts from goods to services, and labour-intensive production moves abroad. But this does not mean factory output collapses.

Life as one of China’s industrial worker ants did not suit Liu Xu: waking up early in factory accommodation, working for 11 hours operating a machine in the tool-making factory, eating all his ...

Rather than settling for jobs below their education level, a record 4.6 million Chinese applied for postgraduate studies this year. There are 6,000 applications for each civil service job, state ...

At the time, the weather was no different from before. But 20 years on, the factory’s working conditions have markedly improved. In 2003, when Li signed up, the entrance teemed with hopeful applicants ...

A United Auto Workers union local is warning of as many as 230 layoffs at a Ford Motor Co. factory in Michigan, though the company says workers will be offered jobs at another plant.

Factory Jobs Return, but Employers Find Skills Shortage. Share full article. 356. ... Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Jobs Go Begging As Gap Is Exposed In Worker Skills.

iPhone Factory Worker Girl Still Has Her Job Tuesday August 26, 2008 2:41 AM PDT by Arnold Kim China.org.cn reports on the photos posted to our forum last week of a Foxconn factory worker.