7,231,000 Lost Jobs: Manufacturing Employment Down 37% From 1979 Peak

CNS ^ | May 12, 2015 | Terence P. Jeffrey

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“I also believe that viable US companies using US workers with producer-worthy wages, prove that profits can be had, workers can be paid, without automation, and on this side of the water.”

Only if, as I think you said, those US workers are “worth” the higher wages, and that higher worth has come (I believe) largely from the additional productivity driven by increased automation.