Original Entries Content - Manufacturing
Topics
- Comments on decline in manufacturing. Explains my concerns about declining U.S. manufacturing employment. Written May 3, 2011; re-entered August 2021.
- Why worry? Discusses the argument that manufacturing's share of real value added is a better indicator of the vitality of manufacturing than employment. Written May 25, 2011; re-entered August 19, 2021.
- Reviving U.S. manufacturing. Discusses challenges to reviving manufacturing, particularly how to attract workers to a sector that has been reducing employment. Written May 26, 2011; re-entered August 20, 2021.
- Are manufacturing workers hard to find? Discusses challenges manufacturers face in recruiting workers. Argues the challenges are different for professionals and executives, skilled production workers and unskilled workers. Written March 12, 2012; re-entered August 27, 2021.
- Vocational education as a source of manufacturing workers. Based on several reports that were fairly recent in 2012. Written March 15, 2012; re-entered August 27, 2021.
- I look at U.S. R&D spending, the scientific and engineering workforce and international comparisons of educational attainment for explanations of declining manufacturing employment. Educational trends bode ill for future competitiveness. Written August 15, 2011; re-entered September 8, 2021.
- Comparing manufacturing's recovery from the 2008-9 Great Recession to earlier recoveries. Written January 22, 2013; re-entered September 10, 2010.
- Comparison of U.S. manufacturing compensation costs with those of major trading partners. Written March 14, 2013; re-entered September 10, 2021.
- China's share of world trade increased primarily because it gained market share in individual products and secondarily because it upgraded its proc\duct mix. Written March 25, 2013; re-entered September 10, 2021.
- Four recommendations on revitalizing U.S. manufacturing. Written 2011-12.