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“A job in industry is also now harder to attain. Modern #factories are high-tech, run by #engineers and #technicians. In the early 1980s #BlueCollar assemblers, machine operators and repair workers made up more than half of the #manufacturing workforce.

Today they account for less than a third. #Whitecollar professionals outnumber blue-collar factory-floor workers by a wide margin. Even once obtained, a #FactoryJob is far less likely to be unionised than in previous decades, with membership having fallen from one in four workers in the 1980s to less than one in ten today.

In order to find the modern equivalent of such jobs, we looked for #employment with the same traits. What offers decent #pay, #unionisation, requires no #degree and can soak up the male workforce?

The result: mechanics, repair technicians, security workers and the skilled trades.”

<archive.md/L1J7W> (paywall) / <economist.com/finance-and-econ>

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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results. First, every man will have a fair chance to make of himself all that in him lies; to reach the highest point to which his capacities, unassisted by special privilege of his own and unhampered by the special privilege of others, can carry him, and to get for himself and his family substantially what he has earned. Second, equality of opportunity means that the commonwealth will get from every citizen the highest service of which he is capable. No man who carries the burden of the special privileges of another can give to the commonwealth that service to which it is fairly entitled.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, Kansas

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…

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Data Quine

Tom Forth, a data startup CTO in Leeds interviewed by BBC on what he was hoping for from the UK Government Government Spending Review. He was hoping for trams in his city.

"...I want the people that work for me to be able to get to work"

#Transport #Employment #Leeds

thedatacity.com/

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CBC Newfoundland & Labrador

Gen Z is facing the worst youth unemployment rate in decades. Here is how it's different
Canada's youngest workers are being hit by a perfect storm of economic conditions: an inflation crisis, a surge in population, and a country teetering closer to recession as the U.S. trade war wreaks uncertainty on the economy.
#economy #employment #youth #inflation #Canada #News
cbc.ca/news/business/youth-une

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Nonilex

The #CPI data will come under close scrutiny in the months ahead also for another reason. Last week the #BLS, which also compiles other economic releases including the closely watched #employment report, announced the suspension of CPI data collection in 3 cities because of resource constraints [Federal #funding & #layoffs — cuts made by #Trump].

#economy #tariffs #inflation #recession #TrumpPurge
bls.gov/cpi/notices/2025/colle

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