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Macroeconomics 5: Car Parts, Celery & The Labor Market

Planet Money Summer School

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The New American Factory Worker

i came to think of him as the perfect model of the new american factory worker. He knows everything. These machines that cost half a million dollars and are incredibly complex electronics and hydraulics, he can just take them all apart, put them all back together. Ralph is also an incredible specialist in c n c programming. When i came here 20 years ago, we didn't have c n c equipment. It was more of the hammer and screw driver, fix the where. Now it's, it's all faness, that phrase.

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