On Mon, November 16, 1998 at 18:05:38 (-0600) joshua william mason writes: >On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, William S. Lear wrote: > >> >Employment (thousands) by U.S. nonbank MNCS >> > >> >year total parents affiliates majority-owned other affiliates > >> >... >> >1996 26,392 18,775 7,617 6,158 1,459 >> >> Strange. Just over 25,000 people employed by nonbank MNCs (I assume >> MNCS is plural of Multi-National Corporation)? You mean all the Ford >> and GM maquiladoras in Mexico and elsewhere don't push this much, much >> higher? > >The numbers are in thousands, so that's 26 million. That's total for >multinational corporations, though--18.7 million of those jobs are in the >U.S., 6.2 million are with majority-owned foreign affiliates, and 1.5 >million are with other affiliates. (Sorry if the chart was unclear.) Of >course these numbers don't count employees of subcontractors or suppliers >that the MNC itself doesn't have a stake in. Uh, yeah, I knew that... just testing to make sure you were awake... D'oh! Apologies: I think I'm coming down with a flu of some sort and just woke up and am still quite groggy. The table is quite clear for the non-reading impaired ... Bill
