It gave him his assembly-line job in the workshop, where he works at his own speed under special supervision.

For eight years the pair had been inseparable, six legs striding off together to their assembly-line job.

A victim of downsizing from his assembly-line job at a car plant, he is left completely without resources after his wife's long and unsuccessful battle with cancer.

A social worker back in El Salvador, Rosa found an assembly-line job here wrapping sandwiches at a local catering concern at $4.50 an hour.

After retiring, she kept her friends at her assembly-line job at a picture-tube manufacturer.

"I did that for four years," she said of the assembly-line job.

Ireland, moreover, is seeking to create more skilled work for a highly paid work force, moving away from blue-collar assembly-line jobs.

In return, the Mercedes factory will create 1,500 assembly-line jobs--at a cost to the government of over $170,000 per job!

"The kinds of jobs people are talking about creating are low-wage manufacturing jobs, assembly-line jobs," Professor Newman said.

Her goals were twofold: making a profit for herself and her investors and helping to keep assembly-line jobs in America.