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Prologue | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Production Means Prosperity | |
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Unsung Achievements | |
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Prosperity Is Not without Pain | |
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Foreign Trade--Fueled by Success | |
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Getting Out Manufacturing's Story | |
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U.S. Manufacturing: Still Good--But not Alone | |
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Where the Money Is | |
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The Rewards of Adding Value | |
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Productivity and Output | |
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Foreign Producers Follow Money and Opportunity | |
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Indiana: Jitters in Comeback Land | |
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Seeding the Rebound | |
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The Battle Over Steel | |
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Contrarian Approach Helps Region | |
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Sources of Anxiety Remain | |
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Changing Geography and What It Means | |
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The Relocation of Industry | |
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Relocation: A Combination of Attracting and Repelling Forces | |
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Repelling Forces | |
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Attracting Forces | |
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The Important Variable--The Company Itself | |
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Counties Gaining Momentum | |
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Hinterland Highspots | |
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Freeway Flyers | |
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Metro Movers | |
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Gradual Growers | |
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Special Cases | |
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Manufacturing in Search of Good Places | |
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Counties Losing Momentum | |
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Sliding Goliaths | |
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Midrange Sliders | |
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Smaller Sliders | |
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Big-City Blues--Philadelphia and Beyond | |
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A City's Glorious History | |
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Urban Industrial Decline--A Multitude of Whys | |
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Troubles in Other Core Cities | |
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Could Industry Come Back? | |
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Manufacturing and Community Prosperity | |
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Jobs versus Poverty | |
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Manufacturing and Taxes | |
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Manufacturing and Income Disparity | |
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Coping in a World Economy | |
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A Deeper Look at the Trade Deficit | |
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Balance Slipping in Key Industries | |
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Larger Deficits in Key Industries | |
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Deficits with Whom? | |
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China and the Pacific Rim | |
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Contrasting Experiences | |
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A Tale of Two Neighbors | |
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How the Dollar Counts | |
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Globalization and the Transfer of Skills | |
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The Big Problem with the Trade Deficit | |
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Suppliers Are Key Building Blocks | |
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Shrinking and Shifting Economies of Scale | |
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Has Outsourcing Gone Too Far? | |
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The Shifting Defense-Industrial Base | |
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Investment: Booster Shot from Abroad | |
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A Sector Still at Risk | |
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Factories: An Unspoken Word | |
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Runaway NIMBYism? | |
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Even Desirable Growth Is Hard to Sell | |
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Engineering--Out of Favor Here, In Favor Overseas | |
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Snubbed | |
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Aging Industrial Professionals | |
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Factories--Good Places to Work | |
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The Darker Side of Merger Mania | |
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Today's Mergers--Bigger and More Disparate Than Ever | |
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Two Kinds of Mergers | |
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The Search for a Managerial Model | |
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Wanted: Better Leaders | |
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The Need for a Noble Purpose | |
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Managers People Can Read | |
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The Importance of Stewardship | |
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Staying on the Edge | |
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Wall Street: Return to Sanity? | |
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The Cost of the National Crap Shoot | |
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Is Going Private the Answer? | |
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Driving Innovation: Manufacturing and Research | |
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Constructing Research Triangle Park | |
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Teflon and Green Clean | |
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Partnerships That Work | |
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Raising the Odds for a Better Tomorrow | |
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Sudden Changes Can Jolt Counties | |
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A Warning on Competitiveness | |
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Many Bright Spots | |
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Identifying the Small Knobs | |
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An America without Manufacturing | |
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Methodology for Choosing the County Groups | |
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Counties Gaining Momentum | |
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Counties Losing Momentum | |
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Census Bureau Shift from the SIC System to the NAICS Methodology | |
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Detailed Statistics on Sample Counties | |
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Manufacturing Organizations | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |
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About the Authors | |