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In reply to the discussion: United States has lost 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000 [View all]Occulus
(20,599 posts)joint injuries; such workers are more prone to sports-type injuries than other means of employment.
I've worn a suit and made decisions, stood behind a counter and asked "fries with that?", and printed cardboard bulk boxes in a pet food factory (among other jobs), so I feel I've walked the requisite mile in another man's shoes. Blue collar manufacturing jobs are physically harder, require more strength and stamina, and generally wear a body out faster than other forms of employment, yet are often dismissed (as are workers who hold such jobs) as being somehow "less" or "unworthy of fair treatment" compared to someone whose ass is glued into a chair all day long.
We've been considering manufacturing 'less important' in the US for many years now. What if we behaved differently?