Sand in the Gears: How Public Policy Has Crippled American Manufacturing

Name: Sand in the Gears: How Public Policy Has Crippled American Manufacturing
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ISBN: 9781612345888

ISBN-10: 1612345883

ISBN-13: 9781612345888

Edition: 2013

Authors: Andrew O. Smith

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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 in 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 Smith argues that we lost our manufacturing not to forces beyond our control, such as globalization and cheaper labor overseas, but as the result of misguided policies that are…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction


Prologue: Yankee Ingenuity



Manufacturing



Taxes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly



Health Care, Heal Thyself



Law Hurts



The Cost of Justice



"Workers" Compensation



The Regulatory Environment



Unions



A New Social Compact



Making It Happen



Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index


About the Author