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Article: Commercial Printing Employment Dipped.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- Graphic Arts Monthly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Estimates from the U.S. Labor Department show that there was a total of 1,562,100 workers employed in the printing and publishing industry during the final month of 2000. This includes both full- and part-time workers, but not others with a more casual attachment to the industry, such as independent contractors, consultants, and freelancers.
The industry added a modest number of new jobs during the past year in sharp contrast to the nation's manufacturing sector as a whole. While overall manufacturing employment fell by 1.0% between 12/99 and 12/00, the payroll count among printing/publishing companies increased by 0.5%. This translated into a total of 7,100 jobs ...