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Guest commentary: East Bay's manufacturing jobs still here, but changed

2014-10-02 04:51:31| Food - Topix.net

As a young man, I had a job working the graveyard shift at the assembly line for Del Monte Foods in Emeryville, and I remember a lot of middle-class families with fathers and mothers who worked in other manufacturing companies in the East Bay. Perhaps they made glass products at Owens-Illinois, potato chips at Granny Goose, hand soldered "daisy wheels" at Diablo Systems, or made metal parts in one of the many fabrication companies in our region.

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