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High-tech assembly workers put the finishing touches on a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro at the GM assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario.

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High-tech assembly workers put the finishing touches on a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro at the GM assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario.

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  • High-tech assembly workers put the finishing touches on a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro at the GM assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario.
  • Chad Moutray, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers, concludes a toxic mix of recession, fierce global competition and rising production costs have curtailed U.S. manufacturing. But America still leads the world in manufacturing. 'Twenty-one percent of the value of all manufactured goods come from the United States,' Moutray said.
  • A laser welding robot on the body-assembly line at a high tech plant in Bursa, Turkey, operated jointly by Fiat and PSA Peugeot Citroen in 2007.
  • Workers attach tires to General Motors vehicles in the early 1920s. U.S. factory employment fell from 17.3 million workers in the summer of 2000 to 11.8 million last July.
  • Bob Baugh, executive director of the Industrial Union Council for the AFL-CIO, concludes the decline in U.S. manufacturing has been 'a disaster. We have lost 6 million manufacturing jobs. We have just wasted it away.'
  • A lone assembly line worker labors on an engine block at a General Motors plant in Detroit, Mich., during the 1930s.

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