Making it, why manufacturing still matters, Louis Uchitelle
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- Economic history
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
- History
- Industrial policy
- Economic policy
- United States -- Economic policy -- 21st century
- Industrial policy -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- 2000-2099
- United States
- Manufacturing industries -- United States
- Manufacturing industries
- Manufacturing industries -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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Making it, why manufacturing still matters, Louis Uchitelle
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-165) and index
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Making it
Nature of contents
bibliography
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907190459
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Louis Uchitelle
Sub title
why manufacturing still matters
Summary
In the 1950s, manufacturing generated nearly 30 percent of U.S. income. Over the past fifty-five years, that share has gradually declined to less than 12 percent. At the same time, real estate, finance, and Wall Street trading have grown. While manufacturing's share of the U.S. economy shrinks, it expands in countries such as China and Germany that have a strong industrial policy. Meanwhile Americans are only vaguely aware of the many consequences of the loss of that industrial base, including a decline in their self-image as inventive, practical, and effective people. And yet, with the improbable rise of Donald Trump, the consequences of the hollowing out of America's once-vibrant industrial working class can no longer be ignored. Reporting from places where things were and sometimes still are "Made in the USA" -- Albany, New York, Boston, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. -- longtime New York Times economics correspondent Louis Uchitelle argues that the government has a crucial role to play in making domestic manufacturing possible
Table of contents
The long unwinding -- Redefining skill -- Urban manufacturing -- Subsidies -- Offshoring and how it would be reversed: The challenges
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