12/84Number of states in which some part of the B-1 bomber is manufactured: 44
6/84Coffin manufacturers in the United States today: 400
1/85Value of counterfeit products manufactured or sold in the U.S. last year: $19,000,000,000
10/85Salvadoran union activists murdered this year: 8
4/85Number of manufacturing jobs New England has gained since 1982: 64,650
4/85Number of beer cans manufactured since they were introduced in 1935: 610,000,000,000
7/85Percentage of the U.S. pencil market supplied by domestic manufacturers: 93
1/86Percentage change in Britain’s manufacturing output since 1979: -6
6/86Portion of the domestic TV market held by American manufacturers: 3/4
4/87Number of manufacturing plants in Tennessee owned by Japanese companies: 45
5/87Members of the AFL-CIO’s horseshoers union: 300
12/88Estimated portion of chlorofluorocarbons produced worldwide that is manufactured by Du Pont: 1/4
4/88Percentage of Japanese cars sold in America last year that were manufactured here: 18
Percentage of cars sold in America by Chrysler last year that were manufactured overseas: 12
Chances that an American worker is: 1 in 6
1/89Percentage of all Tiffany & Co. shopping bags that are manufactured in El Salvador: 75
9/89Change, since 1987, in the total number of manufacturing jobs in the United States: +379,000
Change, since 1987, in the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States held by union members: -175,000
5/90Average ratio of a CEO’s salary to that of a blue-collar worker at major Japanese automobile manufacturers: 20:1
Average ratio at major US. automobile manufacturers: 192:1
7/90Chances that a piece of solar-energy equipment manufactured in the United States last year was exported: 1 in 2
Number of Palestinians who have been laid off by Israeli manufacturers this year: 8,500
12/92Rank of the United States, among the world’s largest manufacturers of photovoltaic cells in 1980: 1
Rank of Japan, among the world’s largest manufacturers of photovoltaic cells today: 1
4/92Chances that a Japanese carsold in the United States was manufactured in the United States: 2 in 5
7/92Ratio of donations made to the Democratic Party by corporations to donations made by labor unions: 3:1
9/92Number of times the word “union” appears in the text of the Democratic platform: 0
10/93Portion of the 107,000 manufacturing jobs lost in California since 1987 that went to Mexico: 1/6
3/93Ratio of the number of Americans employed by government to those employed by manufacturers: 1:1
12/94Number of industrialized countries whose manufacturers pay higher wages than those in the United States: 9
7/94Number of guns manufactured in the United States each hour: 360
1/96Tons of sulfuric acid used each year in the manufacture of Jell-O: 2,035
2/96Income at which North Carolina Representative Fred Heineman believes the lower middle class begins: $100,000
Chances that an American worker’s annual income falls short of this: 39 in 40
12/97Percentage change since 1970 in the number of Americans employed by U.S. toy manufacturers: -40
5/97Rank of the Manpower temporary agency among U.S. companies employing the largest number of workers: 1
1/98Percentage of French gas stations that ran dry after a five-day roadblock last fall by striking French truckers: 40
Percentage change since then in the number of Republican candidates endorsed by a union: +125
1/99Chances that a Disney World employee is unionized: 2 in 5
2/99Number of tourists taken hostage by striking Club Med workers in Martinique for three days last November: 287
9/99Average number of full-time surgeons on call in East Timor: 1
1/00Months after publishing The Communist Manifesto that Karl Marx became editor of a newspaper funded by industrialists: 2
11/00Estimated number of hours of labor performed by African-American slaves between 1619 and 1865: 222,505,049
Estimated value of that labor, compounded at 6 percent interest through 1993: $97,100,000,000,000
6/00Weeks before Peru ‘s national election last April that President Alberto Fujimori raised the minimum wage by 18 percent: 4
12/01Percentage change between 1998 and 1999 in the number of women construction workers: +36
3/01Percentage of Venezuelans voting last December who approved a government-sponsored resolution to oust all union leaders: 62
Percentage of registered Venezuelan voters who voted at all: 23.5
12/02Percentage of the 223 trade unionists reported murdered or missing worldwide last year who worked in Colombia: 88
5/02Number of Britain’s Anglican clergy to whom their union is offering martial-arts training this year: 1,500
5/02Number of times Marlboro cigarettes appear or are mentioned in the film In the Bedroom: 5
Number of product-placement deals the film’s producers made with Marlboro’s manufacturer: 0
9/02Number of appearances made by corporate representatives on U.S. network nightly newscasts last year: 955
Number of appearances made by labor representatives: 31
9/02Chance that a U.S. employer faced with a union drive in 1998 or 1999 illegally fired a pro-union worker: 1 in 4
10/03Number of Democratic legislators absent for this year’s 213-210 vote restricting workers’ overtime-pay eligibility: 7
12/03Number of times Democratic presidential candidates used the word “jobs” in their first four debates after Labor Day: 111
Number of times they mentioned Bill Clinton: 36
6/03Percentage unemployment in Palestine, West Virginia, the hometown of former POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch: 15
6/03Estimated number of Ding Dongs manufactured per minute at St. Louis’s Interstate Brands factory: 1,000
7/03Amount by which the number of government jobs in the U.S. exceeds the number of manufacturing jobs: 5,129,000
10/05Kernels of candy corn manufactured for Halloween each year: 9,000,000,000
Percentage last year: 19
1/06Number of manufacturing jobs that China has lost since 1996: 21,000,000
10/06Factor by which the jobless rate among veterans under 25 of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars exceeds the U.S. average: 3
6/06Ratio of the average manufacturing wage in the United States to that in Mexico, before NAFTA took effect in 1994: 6:1
Ratio today: 8:1
8/06Price, from a Colombian manufacturer, for a custom-made bulletproof sports coat: $1,020
5/07Number of magnetic “Support Our Troops” ribbons sold by the leading manufacturer in 2004: 4,000,000