Category: Workforce
Educating The Workforce
27-08-2010
There's a great post on Manufacturing Crunch currently from writer and fireboat engineer Jessica DuLong. It's a fascinating exploration of the challenges we face in linking people to the jobs available and asks whether we need to dilute the privileging...
Category: Workforce
Foxconn Suicides
27-05-2010
The current concern over working conditions at Hon Hai/Foxconn's giant assembly plant in Shenzhen, China, is overshadowing the global launch of the iPad, which is made there. We've run and recommended articles on working conditions at this plant for over...
Category: Workforce
Gadgets Today, But Employment Tomorrow?
02-12-2009
If manufacturing is to have a future, we have to get more young people to see it as a career with a future. And we have to do it before the current skilled generation retires and there's no-one left to train the youngsters.
Unfortunately,...
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Losing Manufacturing Has Social Consequences
08-10-2009
Over at the Manufacturing Crunch site, Bill Waddell, a global lean production consultant, has written an article on the social consequences of losing over ten million manufacturing jobs in the US over the past few decades. He suggests that this has closed...
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When The Workforce Clocks Out...
24-09-2009
There have been lots of studies and reports in the media over the years about the ageing workforce and the need to replace it, but these largely came before the current economic crisis, and the competition for scarcer resources for investment. Yet this...
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Management Responsibilities
22-09-2009
I write for a pro-manufacturing site in the US called Manufacturing Crunch. I posted a link there recently to an article in the UK Independent from a Management Consultant blowing the whistle on consultant scams and overcharging. One of the best real...
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