Made in the USA the rise and retreat of American manufacturing /

"In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary step toward a pure service economy. Smil argues that no advanced economy can prosper without a strong, innova...

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Main Author: Smil, Vaclav (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
Physical Description:
xiii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Manufacturing industries -- United States.
Industrial policy -- United States.
United States -- Commerce.

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505 0 |a Why manufacturing matters : Manufactured societies ; Manufacturing and service economies -- The ascent, 1865-1940 : Creating the modern world, 1865-1899 ; American steel ; The Edisonian electric system ; Manufacturing for the Information Age ; The decades of consolidation, 1900-1940 ; Electrification of industries and households ; Modern industrial production: mass and efficiency ; Manufacturing during the Great Depression -- Dominance, 1941-1973 : World War II and its immediate aftermath, 1941-1947 ; Mobilizing for war ; Old and new weapons ; The beginnings of the computer era ; A quarter century of superiority, 1948-1973 ; The first mass consumption society ; Automation, computers, and microchips ; Manufacturing strengths and problems -- The retreat, 1974- : Signs of weakness, 1974-1990 ; Energy in manufacturing ; Problems in the auto industry ; Electronic triumphs and defeats ; Multiple failures, 1991-2012 ; Sectoral losses and capitulations ; The myth of high-tech dominance ; "Made in China" and the Walmart Nation -- The past and the future : Successes and challenges ; The achievements of American manufacturing ; Failures and problems ; Global competition: never a level playing field ; Should anything be done? ; Calls for change ; Exporting goods ; Encountering limits -- Chances of success. 
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