Re: [Marxism] Re: French elections

["Sayan Bhattacharyya" <ok.president+marxmail@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/21/07, Joaquin Bustelo <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So the U.S. is part of the "industrialized" world, yet China is not? Brazil
> is not?
>
> And how many "industrial" and "factory workers" are left in the United
> States?

Full: 
<http://www.conference-board.org/utilities/pressDetail.cfm?press_ID=2432>:

China Losing More Manufacturing Jobs Than U.S. but Adding Service Jobs
at a Rapid Pace

July 8, 2004

China is losing more manufacturing jobs than the United States. For
the entire economy between 1995 and 2002, China lost 15 million
manufacturing jobs, compared with 2 million in the U.S., The
Conference Board reports in a study released today.

"As its manufacturing productivity accelerates, China is losing jobs
in manufacturing – many more than the United States is – and gaining
them in services, a pattern that has been playing out in the developed
world for many years," concludes The Conference Board study.

[...]

China is rapidly losing manufacturing jobs in the same industries
where the U.S. and other major countries have seen jobs disappear,
such as textiles. Matthew Spiegelman, Economist at The Conference
Board and co-author of the study, notes: "The U.S. lost 202,000
textile jobs between 1995 and 2002, a tremendous decline by any
measure. But China lost far more jobs in this sector –1.8 million. All
told, 26 of China's 38 major industries registered job losses between
1995 and 2002."


China's Industrial Productivity Rises

China's industrial labor productivity growth exploded at a 17% annual
rate between 1995 and 2002. As in the more developed countries, this
rise in productivity comes from improved technologies and the
reallocation of resources from lower to higher value activities.

[...]


Other Key Findings:

The impact of job losses has been widespread across the industrial
sector. In addition to the losses in textile manufacturing, industries
with the highest job losses included steel processing (557,000),
machinery (588,000), and non-metal mineral products (429,000).
This pattern of job loss is repeated across the manufacturing sector.
The only three manufacturing industries showing any substantial job
gains in China are electronics and telecommunications (374,000),
garments (160,000), and leathers and furs (129,000). Most of these
positions were in firms involving some kind of foreign ownership.
The pace of downsizing has been extremely fast at state-owned
enterprises, in particular, with over 12 million jobs lost between
1995 and 2002 in the industrial sector alone. While the upsizing of
private sector enterprises was substantial – almost 9 million new jobs
– the net loss in jobs in China's industrial sector was still over 4
million jobs. While there has been much discussion about offshoring
high-wage jobs from the U.S. to low-wage countries like China, the
loss of large numbers of manufacturing jobs is actually occurring in
both countries simultaneously

.Source: China's Experience with Productivity and Jobs:Benefits and
Costs of Change Report R-1352, The Conference Board.
        
Full: <http://www.conference-board.org/utilities/pressDetail.cfm?press_ID=2432>

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