Trump wants to bring back 'masculine' jobs. Men don't want them.

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Trump wants to bring back 'masculine' jobs. Men don't want them.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-wants-to-bring-back-masculine-jobs-men-don-t-want-them/ar-AA1D5tHQ?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=d3eac4b32d8545f7f79c897d2c4b98ba&ei=30#image=1

Story by [e-mail] (Emily Stewart) • 21h •


The theory behind President Donald Trump's massive wave of tariffs is that they're a way to usher in a renaissance in American manufacturing. The idea is to make America the 1950s again, labor-wise.

The Industrial Revolution brought American workers from rural farms to urban factories. And over the past several decades, those factory workers have found new homes, work-wise, in services — in hospitality and tech and healthcare and basically anything that's not making an actual, tangible thing. American manufacturing, though still second only to China globally, has declined. Trump has pledged to reverse that trend, but it's a tall order.

Plenty of people agree with Trump that the US should bring back its industrial sector — an August poll found that 80% of Americans think the country would be better off if more Americans worked in manufacturing than do these days. The rub is that people are not so jazzed about working in manufacturing themselves. That same poll found that just 25% of Americans think they'd be better off working in a factory.

There is also a distinctly "manly" edge to Trump's pronouncements. When the president talks about bringing back jobs, he means specific kinds of jobs — ones in manufacturing, mining, construction — positions that have historically been held by men and coded as masculine. His supporters understand that, too. Over on Fox News, hosts have described Trump's tariffs as the "ultimate testosterone boost," with one declaring that working from behind a screen "makes you a woman."..............................................


....................The United States is already facing a manufacturing worker shortage. An April 2024 report from Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute found that about half of the 3.8 million new manufacturing jobs expected to open up by 2033 are likely to go unfilled. That's for a variety of reasons — an aging labor force, a downtrend in immigration, a lack of workers trained for the roles, and changing career trends. Millennials and Gen Zers know their parents' and grandparents' factory jobs aren't available to them, and even if they were, they don't necessarily want them. A recent post on X juxtaposed a pair of job ads in Tennessee, one at a car wash, the other at a nearby Nissan plant. The car wash job paid more. It's also probably more fun.

"It's hard to reconcile this alleged great appetite with the fact that we're struggling to fill all the manufacturing jobs we already have," said Colin Grabow, who researches trade policy at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.

"Bringing back a manufacturing job is far from a panacea for job quality in the US."

[IzzaNuDay]

1. Yeah, right, bring back jobs

masses who can’t unionize, work in substandard conditions (remember the felon wants to eliminate all the unions). And depress wages.

Women need not apply…

[no_hypocrisy]

2. In the 50s, my cousin worked in the Mahwah Ford Plant, just screwing on

nuts onto the bolts on a conveyer belt. It didn't make him feel masculine. Just the opposite. He felt emasculated.

[NBachers]

3. Will these "masculine" jobs enable the man to buy a house & car and support a family all on his own?

[Biophilic]

5. Not this time around if they eliminate unions.

[Paladin]

4. This administration's utter cluelessness will be our salvation. (nt)

[Aristus]

6. "Masculine manly, manly men!"

If dipshits like the guys Trump talks about had actually gotten off their lazy white asses and put in an honest day's work for a change, chattel slavery would never have taken hold in this country. It's not like it's going to change now.

[Dulcinea]

7. All these wonderful factories of the future...

...are going to be staffed by robots & AI. The only humans working there will have Comp Sci & IT degrees. They'll be there to maintain the machines & the technology. Once again, the Fascist Felon is full of crap.

[Aristus]

8. Serving in the military can be considered pretty masculine.

But Trump ran away from military service as fast as his bone spurs would allow him to. And he wears makeup and high heels.

So...