Word: workers
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...relatives in America and Northern Europe. One man in Balvano called his brother-in-law in West Germany, but did not have the heart to reveal the family tragedy. "You'd better come home because things are not going well for us here," the caller said. The emigrant worker had lost his wife, his four children, his brother and his mother...
...call in sick on Mondays, does not become bored, does not take vacations or qualify for pensions-and does not leave Coca-Cola cans rattling around inside the products it has helped assemble. Its "up time" on the job averages around 95% (the figure for the average blue-collar worker is about 75%). In addition to its Horatio Alger work habits, it is immune to government and union regulations on heat, fumes, noise, radiation and other safety hazards. The robot has no affections or passions. If you prick it, it does not bleed. If you poison it, it does...
...became practical as the brains to run a robot. The second development was wage inflation. Two decades ago, a typical assembly-line robot cost about $25,000; that, plus all operating costs over its eight-year lifetime, amounted to about $4.20 an hour, slightly more than the average factory worker's wages and fringe benefits. Today that typical robot costs $40,000 (they range from $7,500 to $150,000), and it can still be paid for and operated at $4.80 an hour; the worker often costs $15 to $20. That is the formula for a gold rush...
...robot to do the dirty work, like some mechanized Turkish Gastarbeiter, has muted alarms about the loss of jobs and has kept the labor unions mostly at bay. Welding cars and spraying paint are stupefying jobs, and, besides, they are ideally done at temperatures hotter than a worker can stand. "In the next five years," says Anthony Massaro, Westinghouse's chief of robotics technology, "we're going to lose 25,000 people in manufacturing due to attrition, and there's no way to replace them all. People joining the labor force these days don't want...
...more trains," one 'T' worker told incoming passengers. "For how long?" one asked as she turned around. "Maybe forever," he answered with a smile...