Manufacturing a Better Future for America |  | Authors: Richard McCormack, Clyde Prestowitz, David Bourne, John Russo, Sherry Lee Linkon, Ron Hira, Irene Petrick, Peter Navarro, James Jacobs, Michael Webber
Publisher: Alliance for American Manufacturing
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 145,545
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
ASIN: B002IFSQB0
Publication Date: July 13, 2009
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Product Description
There has never been a more critical time to rebuild the foundation of America's economy. President Obama and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have both stressed the need to produce goods in America again. Doing so would create more jobs, reduce harmful global trade imbalances, and strengthen the American economy. But it is easier said than done. Manufacturing in America is in serious decline, with 40,000 factory closures and more than five million jobs lost over the last decade alone. How can the United States industrial sector be revived? The Alliance for American Manufacturing-- an innovative partnership of the United Steelworkers union and leading U.S. manufacturers-- asked some of the brightest minds in America for their ideas. 'Manufacturing a Better Future for America' details the challenges and opportunities the country faces at this critical time: trade policy, skills and training, research and development, national security, supply chains, new technology, and globalization. If you want to understand the sector that is most vital to America's economic renewal, you must read this book.
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If you want to understand America's economic woes, you must read this book July 14, 2009
Scott N. Paul (Silver Spring, MD USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Manufacturing a Better Future for America is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand why our economy is in such a sorry state right now. It's a comprehensive look at the most productive and innovative sector of our economy--manufacturing--and busts prevailing myths about the industry. Nine essays written by leading thinkers on manufacturing provide a 360-degree view of how we got where we are today, and why it's essential to revitalize the manufacturing base. With unemployment so high, skyrocketing debt, state budgets in collapse, and tough times for nearly everyone, it's important to understand why the engine of our economy has sputtered. There are insightful and brief essays on topics that include international trade, skills and training, innovation, the social costs of deindustrialization, the intersection of manufacturing and national security, industrial policies in nations that compete with us, and the globalization of supply chains. Highly readable, you'll come away knowing that manufacturing has to be part of our future, and not just part of our past.
Manufacturing is key to revitalizing the economy July 21, 2009
Scott Treibitz
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is just what we need. America needs to be reminded that manufacturing is what built our economy so many years ago, and that we should look to it once more to drag us out of the economic mess our country is facing.
Furthermore, the economic mindset of our government and our business leaders needs to be shifted. The practice of offshoring production has rendered millions of Americans jobless and angry.
The power to revitalize the American economy must come from its people and its people alone.
This book justifies why jobs need to stay on American soil, and how a paradigm shift in business economics is needed to prevent this recession from repeating itself. All in all, I highly recommend this book to anyone who is willing to help bandage up our broken economy.
Must read July 21, 2009
Concerned Citizen (Falls Church, Virginia USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Finally, a book that recognizes the importance of America's manufacturing sector and identifies the challenges the sector faces. If America is going to restore economic growth, it needs to rebuild its manufacturing base -- flipping hamburgers and selling insurance policies isn't enough, we have to make things.
Where was this book a decade ago? August 7, 2009
T. Dean (NYC)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found this book to be informative and helpful. I especially liked the way it ended with some forward thinking "hope".
Stand up and make something August 12, 2009
Robio (Denver, CO USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Someone said this book is not light reading, and someone said it was overdue by ten years. Yes, we were napping while the value-creating part of our economy was being given to others by a small minority of people running multinational companies. And I should add, running them very profitably. I've gone through this book quickly and almost completely, but I can't wait to get into it again. Many of us average citizens can see what our leaders, pundits, and economists either can't or won't: manufacturing makes wealth. Emerging countries know this and are, not surprisingly, using manufacturing to become wealthy. Terrific! Lift your people out of poverty. I applaud you for it. But we should not be giving away what we've worked so hard to attain, by which I mean our standard of living. Sure, we need to cut out the compulsive consumption, but must we drop into poverty?
Our "leaders" either don't recognize this or give it lip service only. We see our neighbors out of work and wonder when our turn will come. But what can we do? Well, this book gives you talking points, not only the numbers and facts but also an intelligent perspective on the grim tale of continuing U.S. industrial decline. Read it, absorb it, and then get busy making politicians, your friends and everybody else aware of this huge problem. It has gone too far already; it's time to stop this madness and get healthy again.
Tag, you're it! And so am I.
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