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Motor manufacturing generates much more employment outside the motor industry than in the motor works themselves. In France in 1984, for instance, only 215 000 people were directly employed in making motor vehicles while perhaps a further 1 900 000 were indirectly involved to a greater or less extent in one way or another. In all, this was approaching 10 per cent of the total French labour force, then 21 483 000. Those outside the motor factories worked in a whole spectrum of occupations stretching at one end from those employed as drivers (766 000, more than three times as many as those in the motor factories), 388 000 in garages and repair work, 315 000 in industries such as metals, rubber, plastics, paint and textiles supplying the motor manufacturers, 155 000 making components for them in outside businesses, 94 000 in insurance and hire-purchase, 80 000 in road-building and repair, round to (at the other end of the scale) 18 000 in driving schools and 7000 working as attendants on autoroutes and in car parks.1
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Fridenson, P. (1987). Some Economic and Social Effects of Motor Vehicles in France since 1890. In: Barker, T. (eds) The Economic and Social Effects of the Spread of Motor Vehicles. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08624-5_7
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