Why Manufacturing Jobs Move Overseas (An Apple Case Study)
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There are many, many reasons why manufacturing jobs are being created in China and not in the U.S. It’s nowhere near as simple as just calling it “greed” and condemning U.S. employers. In a highly dynamic, constantly changing world, is the U.S. producing skilled employees (at all skill levels!) who are willing to quickly change what they do and how they do it?
What Hollowing Out of U.S. Manufacturing?
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Who says we don’t make anything anymore?
What’s most impressive is that the U.S. produced almost as much manufacturing output as the manufacturing sectors of Germany (#4), Italy (#5), France (#6), Russia (#7), U.K. (#8), Brazil (#9) and Canada (#10) combined ($2.44 trillion).
Manufacturing Crisis
So, has America been throwing our future away the past several decades? Have we been exporting all of our manufacturing capability? Are we at the mercy of China, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia?
No.
U.S. manufacturing output reached its all time high in 2006. U.S. manufacturing revenue reached its all time high in 2006. U.S. manufacturing profits …
Dangerous Toys, Redux
Toy manufacturers want to regulate toys coming into the United States, looking for dangerous materials like lead paint. But what’s the real cause of dangerous toys?
Design flaws, not Chinese manufacturing problems, are the cause of the vast majority of American toy recalls over the last two decades, according to a new study by …
How to Legally Hurt the Competition
Mattel, Hasbro, and Lego have figured out how to use the government to hurt their competitors. They’ll ask for more government regulation.
Acknowledging a growing crisis of public confidence caused by a series of recent recalls, the nation’s largest toy makers have taken the unusual step of asking the federal government to impose mandatory …
Manufacturing in Decline?
United States Steel, Alcoa, Goodyear and the United Steelworkers want to convince you that American manufacturing is in serious decline and that if serious action isn’t taken soon our manufacturing sector will disappear entirely.
”The hemorrhaging of manufacturing jobs is hurting America down to the local level,” said Terrence D. Straub, United States Steel’s …