An Hourly Manufacturing Worker Transported from the 1960s to 2010

question 39

Multiple Choice

An hourly manufacturing worker transported from the 1960s to 2010 would find that manufacturing work today

• A) requires more collaboration skills than in the 1960s.
• B) is just as monotonous and repetitive as in the 1960s.
• C) replaces employees manual skills with robotics and automation.
• D) demands more adaptability to changing conditions than in the 1960s.

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