Has U.S. Manufacturing Gone the Way of the Dinosaur?

Don’t bet on it

There’s nothing I love as much as a paradox. So there’s a lot for me to get excited about with America’s current manufacturing paradox, which is whether U.S. manufacturing is the next big thing or a dying dinosaur. Should we steer our children from factory work, or should we embrace the opportunity to get out in front of something that changes every single day and has the potential to remake our society and economy?

Brad Plumer, in “Is U.S. manufacturing making a comeback—or is it just hype?” (The Washington Post, May 1, 2013), is putting his bets on the advanced manufacturing renaissance; however, Timothy Aeppel in “The Myth of the Manufacturing ‘Renaissance’” (The Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2013) takes his cue from Morgan Stanley’s recent “blue paper” and says there’s no evidence for excitement about U.S. manufacturing.

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Countermarching

Since the late 90's, the Old Continent students have switched from manufacturing studies to humanistic studies - because engineers have inflationed the jobs market. It's sad, but while we hear every day, many times a day, that the manufacturing industry is closer and closer to sinking, nobody is doing anything to make it float - to breathe, at least. We have to re-engineer our industry, we'll go nowhere lamenting a very close manufacturing's death. Thank you.