Hamilton / Nearly 35,000 manufacturing jobs lost in the past decade

It’s Work Week at CBC Hamilton. And in the wake of U.S. Steel’s shutdown of steel manufacturing in the city, we are taking a look at jobs in Hamilton: where they have gone, what remains, and which industries are desperate for employees.

For the first entry in the series, we’re using graphics to illustrate the decline of manufacturing work in the Hamilton area over the past decade.

Once the economic engine of the city, manufacturing was already on the decline in 2003. Numbers from Statistics Canada show that ten years ago, 22 per cent of the workforce in the Hamilton Census Metropolitan Area (which includes Burlington and Grimsby as well as the City of Hamilton) was employed in manufacturing jobs.

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via Steel shutdown: The decline of Hamilton’s manufacturing – Latest Hamilton news – CBC Hamilton.