Leave it to Bruce to twist it all out of shape.

Example:   The Boeing Airplane Company. When I worked there in the late 60s and early 70s, I was one of 125 Production Illustrators doing installation drawings to be used on the assembly line. Recently, I talked to someone who currently works in Boeing's Production Illustration department. Now, all that is being done by 12 people with no particular drawing skills working at computers.

And much of the sub-assembly work that used to be done in the United States, mostly by Boeing itself, is now done overseas and shipped here. [Do you really want to fly in an aircraft that has essential parts--like the wings--to be made by the lowest bidder?]

It was hardly a "sweat shop." We all wore shirts and ties and worked in a well-lighted (and air conditioned) room at large drawing tables. Damned good pay and benefits. And any time we worked for more than 8 hours five days a week, we got paid overtime. In the first quarter of 1968, I worked lots of overtime (time-and-a-half) and on weekends (double time), and in three months I'd made enough money to pay cash for a new car.

"Sweat shop" my arse!

Don Firth