These companies, like similar operations elsewhere, offer few jobs to former assembly-line workers.

He told me the average assembly-line worker earns $18 an hour.

Many of those jobs, however, pay less than assembly-line workers are used to earning.

Another generation of assembly-line workers is not what we need.

Those companies that do rely on large numbers of assembly-line workers are beginning to have difficulty finding them.

Some engineers, managers and assembly-line workers will have to find new jobs.

Many assembly-line workers said in interviews that they earned between $250 and $450 a month.

The victims are overwhelmingly young women, many of them assembly-line workers and high school students.

It also said some assembly-line workers would be laid off.

At Ford, an assembly-line worker now makes about $17.01 an hour.