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The last time I drove through Alabama, there were a bunch of new assembly line factories that weren't there ten years before. Many of them were automotive related.
Were these a mirage?
The factories will continue but will be staffed by fewer and fewer humans.
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In addition, it is not a wise move to try to make a career in a field where your skill set is clearly increasingly being preformed by machines.
I am not sure I understand the fetishism of these factory jobs of yore either, they were not high skill jobs, they were not particularly fulfilling or intellectually stimulating jobs, and they were monotonous. The only thing they had going for them that put them beyond fast food was that a person with little to no education could perform them and maintain a low-to-middle class lifestyle and health coverage, where as in fast food they would basically be at poverty levels.
And if they were to come back now they wouldn't even be able to do that and remain competitive.
So a nation with 45 million on food stamps and 15 million or more unemployed would refuse factory jobs? The problem must lie elsewhere.
I am not convinced the people on food stamps would have the education required for the more technically skilled factory jobs that exist today. As said elsewhere line type unskilled factory labor jobs are pretty much a thing of the past. I am sure that there are a few pockets of them here and there but they are no longer the backbone of the American middle class and that is not coming back.
Deloitte & Touche periodically surveys global CEOs in a variety of sectors to determine future trends. In late 2015, before anyone was nominated, they surveyed 500 global manufacturing CEOs. They concluded that the US was positioned to reclaim the top spot for global manufacturing by 2020. This was based on unprecedented investment in custom industrial robotics that were being designed to compete with the cheapest sources of labor.
If realized, whomever was elected in 2020 would be positioned to take a bow regardless that these investments and custom designs began years prior. Tomorrow's factories are not your daddy's factory. Far fewer employees will be needed and more skill will be required.
Will millenials take factory jobs? All depends on the job function, the pay , benefits and the individual Millennial.
BTW, Amazon employs mostly millenials in their massive fulfillment plants.
The people who are excited over the return of factory jobs don't fully comprehend automation and robotics. Factory jobs will be there, but there will be far fewer factory jobs and they'll require more education. This is hard for people who worked on lines to imagine.
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