interactive map of manufacturing jobs in US since 1979

[Truthmatters]

Manufacturing state by state, 1971-2011 | What Went Wrong: The Betrayal of The American Dream

 

[Oddball]

Got big interactive map of farming jobs since the 1940s?

 

[Truthmatters]

its interesting to see while thinking of who was in office

 

[Oddball]

Only because you're an unhinged hack, who doesn't recognize that technology doesn't stand still and that virtually no field is immune from the fact.

 

[Truthmatters]

so taxes and regulations dont effect manufacturing like the right has claimed for decades?

 

[California Girl]

Which countries are most successful with manufacturing jobs?

What do they have in common?

Think.

 

[expat_panama]

Manufacturing state by state, 1971-2011 | What Went Wrong: The Betrayal of The American Dream

Personally I found the graphic a bit of a muddle, but my guess is that their point is 1979 saw the all time high in US manufacturing employment--

--which had come with the Carter malaise with of double digit inflation/unemployment. Fortunately those days are behind us; we've now cut the payrolls by half and America is soooo much better off.

Over the decades since 1979--

--we've doubled production using only half the workforce. What's not to like? Our soaring productivity has really made America stronger and more powerful ---average real household wealth has increased by 70% while average household real incomes have doubled! All this during a time when the USSR (our biggest foreign problem back then) simply evaporated.

 

[Truthmatters]

trace the chart acrossed the years clowns.

the claim you make about about dems being bad for manufacturing are proven false.

regulations and taxes under dems dont hamper the jobs

 

[waltky]

Between outsourcing and automation America has lost half its manufacturing jobs...

The decline of US manufacturing jobs and living standards
7 August 2012 - "Will work for oil": Robots do much of the work at Michigan's car factories today

For decades America's vibrant manufacturing sector provided poorly educated workers a bridge to the middle class. But today's plants need highly skilled workers who know their way around ultra-high tech machinery. On the factory floor of AMI, a Michigan-based maker of fuel cells, one can hear the future of manufacturing. It is very, very quiet. The loudest noise in the brightly lit factory is the beeping of a hydraulic lift used to replace lightbulbs overhead.

The contrast with traditional manufacturing is sharp: Almost no noise, no dirt, little physical effort. And requirements for workers are very different. "You've got to have the smart people that help build it from the bottom up," says AMI President Aaron Crum. "We don't forge things anymore. We use lasers to cut metal, we extrude ceramics, we do things that are different. And so because of it, we need a different labour force to make it happen."

Decades of losses

Manufacturing in the US is undergoing the same technological revolution that sent workers from agriculture to industry at the end of the 19th Century, says Lou Glazer of consulting group Michigan Future Inc. In the '50s, he says, factory work was a third of the work in America; now it's below 10%. Although manufacturing employment has ticked up in recent months, adding 30,000 jobs since March, the gains pale in comparison to the losses of the past decade. Three and half million manufacturing jobs have vanished in 10 years, bringing the current total to just under 12 million. As employment has plummeted, productivity has soared. Not for nothing does the US National Association of Manufacturers boast that American factory workers are "the most productive in the world".

About 30 minutes' drive from the AMI plant is the ghost of manufacturing past: Willow Run. It is an almost unfeasibly large plant that once turned out Liberator bombers, then Kaiser cars, then transmissions and car bodies for General Motors. Willow Run closed in 2010 when GM went bankrupt. Of the plant's five million square feet, one million has been cleared for sale. The rest of the factory is an astonishing reminder of what manufacturing used to be like. Hulking presses the size of three-storey houses gather dust, corridors stretch into the gloom seemingly without end, and the warm air is thick with the smell of machine oil.

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