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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Don Lee, U.S. Manufacturing Attempts a High-Tech Comeback; An unusual
public-private partnership to build a high-tech industrial cluster in Albany
, N.Y., could provide the framework for economic revitalization
nationwideLos Angeles Times, May 15, 2011.
http://www.latimes.com/business
/la-fi-manufacturing-revival-20110515,0,569232.story
Two consecutive pragraphs:
"The U.S. share of global chip-production capacity, practically 100% in the
1970s, has been sliding for years — down to just 14% in 2009. The domestic
industry's workforce has shrunk 45% in the last decade.
"The Albany plant is expected to employ about 1,400 workers, many of them $
40,000-a-year technicians and equipment operators.
My comment:
(a) Willy SHIH, also knonw as Chintay SHIH or C-T SHIH 史欽泰, is a full-
time priofessor at Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua
University, Taiwan 國立清華大學科技管理研究所
http://www.tm.nthu.edu.tw/people/bio.php?PID=6
(click Writing)
(b) To my surprise, the pays in Global Foundries at Albay is low. The
average starting salaries for an engineering college graduate is more than
40,000 even at the depth of the recent Great Recession. No wonder those (
pays) among semiconductor workers of Taiwan are not high, even by local
standard.
(2) The Service Elevator; Can poor countries leapfrog manufacturing and grow
rich on services? Economist, May 19, 2011
http://www.economist.com/node/18712351
("The authors argue that technology and outsourcing are enabling services to
overcome their former handicaps. Traditional services such as trade, hotels
, restaurants and public administration remain largely bound by the old
constraints. But modern services, such as software development, call centres
and outsourced business processes (from insurance claims to transcribing
medical records), use skilled workers, exploit economies of scale and can be
exported. In other words, they are just like manufacturing")
(3) Binyamin Appelbaum, Employment Data May Be the Key to the President’s.
New York Times, June 2, 2011 (title in print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/business/economy
/02jobs.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=roosevelt&st=cse
The first two paragraphs:
"No American president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won a second term
in office when the unemployment rate on Election Day topped 7.2 percent.
"Seventeen months before the next election, it is increasingly clear that
President Obama must defy that trend to keep his job.
My comment: There is need to read the rest of the report. |
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