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*MANUFACTURING LOW PAY: DECLINING WAGES IN THE JOBS THAT BUILT AMERICA'S MIDDLE CLASS* [20 November 2014]

by Catherine Ruckelshaus & Sarah Leberstein

http://www.nelp.org/page/-/Justice/2014/Manufacturing-Low-Pay-Declining-Wage...

[full-text, 20 pages]

[excerpt]

This report will trace some of the drivers of this anemic rebound in manufacturing and its largest sector, auto manufacturing. “Onshoring” of jobs by manufacturers is on the rise in the United States; jobs are rebounding here due to a combination of a wage convergence between domestic and international jobs and aggressive supports from U.S. states. At the same time, the decline in relative wages in the manufacturing sector is striking: in the last decades, wages in the sector have fallen behind private-sector pay, so that wages for production workers in manufacturing are now more than 4.0 percent less than the private-sector average, and theycontinue to decline.

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