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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 | |