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How does this compare to 50 years ago, at the "peak" of US manufacturing? Obviously, there weren't robots back then to crush people, but there was still heavy e
by tsomctl 10y ago
How does this compare to 50 years ago, at the "peak" of US manufacturing? Obviously, there weren't robots back then to crush people, but there was still heavy equipment, corrosive and carcinogenic chemicals, etc.
- remarkEon 10y agoPerhaps another useful comparison would be to look at statistics from Mexico, and elsewhere, today - the places where we manufacture now and are, ostensibly, trying to bring back jobs from.
- brudgers 10y agoFifty years ago, industrial workers in Alabama had mill jobs. Those jobs moved to China around the turn of the millenium when the US Chamber of Commerce was supporting outsourcing. Mill jobs were generally unionized -- living wages, benefits, and pensions. Kia's plant in West Point Georgia draws from the same labor pool as the Lanier mills did a decade or so earlier.
- duskwuff 10y agoCalling these machines "robots" is new, but the risks aren't. Workers 50 years ago would probably recognize most of these machines, and their hazards, given different names: mill, press, lathe...
- HeyLaughingBoy 10y agoAnd there are cartoons from about 100 years ago about the same hazards: https://www.google.com/search?q=bull+of+the+woods+machinist&espv=2&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZ9dySmPDSAhWj24MKHYLWCwgQsAQIKw&biw=1084&bih=547#imgrc=OtCgppDxiVeC0M https://www.google.com/search?q=bull+of+the+woods+machinist&...:
- hyperpape 10y agoIt's proving surprisingly difficult for me to find a good source right now, but workplace injuries have steadily decreased both in absolute numbers and in work-hours adjusted terms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_safety_and_health#Workplace_fatality_and_injury_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_safety_and_health...
- m0llusk 10y agoFifty years ago potential competitors had their cities bombed to ash from the air.