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Sand in the gears : how public policy has crippled American manufacturing / / Andrew O. Smith



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Autore: Smith Andrew O. <1962-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Sand in the gears : how public policy has crippled American manufacturing / / Andrew O. Smith Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Washington, District of Columbia : , : Potomac Books, , [2013]
©2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (550 p.)
Disciplina: 338.47670973
338.973
Soggetto topico: Industrial policy - United States
Industries - United States
Labor policy - United States
Soggetto geografico: United States Social policy
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-286) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Prologue: Yankee Ingenuity; 1 Manufacturing; 2 Taxes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; 3 Health Care, Heal Thyself; 4 Law Hurts; 5 The Cost of Justice; 6 Workers' Compensation; 7 The Regulatory Environment; 8 Unions; 9 A New Social Compact; 10 Making It Happen; 11 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Sommario/riassunto: American manufacturing has been on the decline for at least two generations. That fact is plain to any observer who travels through the Rust Belt of the Midwest, where the closing of steel plants and automobile factories has created ghost towns that dot the landscape. It is also clear from the dormant New England textile mills, whose owners surrendered their production first to cheaper mills in the Southeast before they, in turn, lost out to Asian labor. What caused this calamity, and what can be done about it?. Andrew O. Smith argues that we lost our manufacturing not simply to forces beyond
Titolo autorizzato: Sand in the gears  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-61234-589-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786258903321
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