By Alwyn Scott Manufacturing job loss is well documented at auto plants, textile mills and other U.S. factories. More than 6 million such jobs disappeared between 2000 and 2009 as companies automated and sent work overseas, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Now the shift is coming to Boeing. The company's airplane unit has hired about 33,000 people since employment bottomed out at about 50,000 in 2006, a bust spurred by the 9/11 attacks. But that 66 percent increase in labor has allowed Boeing to make almost twice as many planes, meaning the ratio of workers to planes has plummeted. The plane maker's current backlog of 5,600 plane orders worth $426 billion dwarfs the $94 billion...
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