How Does America “Reshore” Skills That Have Disappeared?

Re:How Does America “Reshore” Skills That Have Disappeared? by paulryanrogers on Thursday March 17, 2016 @04:59PM (#11307570)

Are guaranteed livable wages a relatively modern phenomenon?

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Re:How Does America “Reshore” Skills That Have Disappeared? by toomuchtodo on Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:20PM (#11307705)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_unions_in_Germany

"Trade unions in Germany have a history reaching back to the German revolution in 1848, and still play an important role in the German economy and society."

Yes?

Welding properly is difficult and takes hundreds of hours of practice (at least). I encourage everyone here to take an intro to welding at your local community college to round out your skillset.

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Re:How Does America “Reshore” Skills That Have Disappeared? by x0x0 on Thursday March 17, 2016 @06:06PM (#11308014)

and in CA, we have a topical example of what happens when you have incompetent welders...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_San_Bruno_pipeline_explos...

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Re:How Does America “Reshore” Skills That Have Disappeared? by toomuchtodo on Thursday March 17, 2016 @06:19PM (#11308081)

The problem is, when you're a corporation who cuts corners by using cheaper, less capable workers, you must be penalized harshly for it. Otherwise, there is no incentive to do the work properly (at a slightly higher cost).

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Re:How Does America “Reshore” Skills That Have Disappeared? by digikata on Thursday March 17, 2016 @06:13PM (#11308046)

One could argue that guaranteed livable wages have only become important because of the pace of change of the employment landscape.

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Re:How Does America “Reshore” Skills That Have Disappeared? by stevetrewick on Friday March 18, 2016 @06:46AM (#11310919)

I'd argue that the other way around. Once you have a 'guaranteed liveable wage' you have reshaped the 'employment landscape' to permanently exclude anyone who's labour is worth less than that wage. You now need a welfare state to prevent those people starving to death.

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