no the point of the article is to say that even if the factories that closed in the 80 s were to come back they wouldn ' t come back with even half the workforce they did back then to put this into context the Nissan plant in the UK produces over 500 , 000 cars a year from a 6000 work force . that means every new car and small truck sold in the US could be built with a work force of little over 200 , 000 . now obviously that ' s direct employment and no the extra jobs such production always brings in but you get my point . all of the jobs aren ' t gone your 100 % right but they don ' t need anywhere near the same number of people . So what the article is saying is to create all the jobs that where lost you need to up production massively which leads to needing to export this production which is pretty hard to do when you rip up all your trade agreements .