Manufacturing Industry
AUTOMOTIVE: America's Largest Manufacturing Industry.
Advanced Materials & Processes, July, 2001
The automobile industry is America's largest manufacturing industry, accounting for 6.6 million jobs nationwide, or about 5% of private-sector jobs. That's a key finding of a study prepared by the University of Michigan and the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) and released in March. According to "Contribution of the Automotive Industry to the U.S.
Economy," the automobile industry directly employs 1.4 million Americans in all 50 states. Another 2.1 million U.S. workers are employed indirectly by auto industry suppliers and other industry-related companies. Expenditures of auto industry employees create an additional 3.1 million jobs nationwide, according to the study. "No other industry makes as big an impact or touches as many lives. Americans drive...
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