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For now the 31-year-old plant manager is content to lord over a factory floor of Vermeer Manufacturing Co. in Pella, Iowa, pointing to a directional drill assembly line that used to be cluttered with 20 days' worth of parts inventory.
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Guiding a reporter through the crowded plant, the former manager of an IBM circuit-board factory points to places where Dell can shave off a few seconds of assembly time or move completed products out the door a couple of minutes faster.
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Since then the north-east has seen strikes most shockingly, in July 2009, a protest involving thousands of workers at a steel plant in Tonghua, in Jilin province, who beat to death a manager because of moves to privatise the factory.
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