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根据下面资料,回答题 The decline in American manufacturing is a common refrain, particularly from Donald Trump.
"We don't make anything anymore, " he told Fox News, while defending his own made-in-Mexicoclothing line.
Without question, manufacturing has taken a significant hit during recent decades, and furthertrade deals raise questions about whether new shocks could hit manufacturing.
But there is also a different way to look at the data.
Across the country, factory owners are now grappling with a new challenge: instead of having toomany workers, they may end up with too few. Despite trade competition and outsourcing, Americanmanufacturing still needs to replace tens of thousands of retiring boomers every year. Millennials maynot be that interested in taking their place, other industries are recruiting them with similar or
better pay.
For factory owners, it all adds up to stiff competition for workers--and upward pressure on wages. "They're harder to find and they have job offers, " says Jay Dunwell, president of Wolverine CoilSpring, a family-owned firm, "They may be coming [into the workforce], but they've been pluckedby other industries that are also doing as well as manufacturing, " Mr. Dunwell has begun bringinghigh school juniors to the factory so they can get exposed to its culture.
At RoMan Manufacturing, a maker of electrical transformers and welding equipment that hisfather cofounded in 1980, Robert Roth keeps a close eye on the age of his nearly 200 workers, fiveare retiring this year. Mr. Roth has three community-college students enrolled in a work-placementprogram, with a starting wage of $13 an hour that rises to $17 after two years.
At a worktable inside the transformer plant, young Jason Stenquist looks flustered by the coppercoils he's trying to assemble and the arrival of two visitors. It's his first week on the job. Asked abouthis choice of career, he says at high school he considered medical school before switching to electricalengineering. "I love working with tools. I love creating, " he says.
But to win over these young workers, manufacturers have to clear another major hurdle: parents,who lived through the worst US economic downturn since the Great Depression, telling them to avoidthe factory. Millennials "remember their father and mother both were laid off. They blame it on themanufacturing recession, " says Birgit Klohs, chief executive of The Right Place, a business develop-
ment agency for western Michigan.
These concerns aren't misplaced: Employment in manufacturing has fallen from 17 million in1970 to 12 million in 2015. When the recovery began, worker shortages first appeared in the highskilled trades. Now shortages are appearing at the mid-skill levels.
"The gap is between the jobs that take no skills and those that require a lot of skill, " says RobSpohr, a business professor at Montcalm Community College. "There're enough people to fill the jobsat McDonalds and other places where you don't need to have much skill. It's that gap in between, andthat's where the problem is. "
Julie Parks of Grand Rapids Community points to another key to luring Millennials into manufacturing: a work/life balance. While their parents were content to work long hours, young people valueflexibility. "Overtime is not attractive to this generation. They really want to live their lives, " she says.
41. Jay Dunwell
42. Jason Stenquist
43. Birgit Klohs
44. Rob Spohr
45. Julie Parks
A.says that he switched to electrical engineering because he loves workingwith tools.
B.points out that there are enough people to fill the jobs that don't needmuch skill.
C.points out that the US doesn't manufacture anything anymore.
D.believes that it is important to keep a close eye on the age of his workers.
E.says that for factory owners, workers are harder to find because of stiff competition.
F.points out that a work/life balance can attract young people into manufacturing.
G.says that the manufacturing recession is to blame for the lay-off of theyoung people's parents.
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