There is no manufacturing renaissance. The sector has been doing just fine for decades.
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Robots And Manufacturing Employment
Posted by Tom Lindmark on August 9th, 2011
I meant to post this some time ago and as usual time ran away from me. So, a bit late and dated here is a report from the Financial Times on the future of manufacturing employment worldwide. Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer by revenue, plans to have as many robots as workers in [...]
Manufacturing’s Decade Long Decline
Posted by Tom Lindmark on June 6th, 2011
For whatever reason, lots of financial writers seem intent on insisting that the manufacturing sector in this country is humming along and we should take that as a sign that better days are just ahead. Unfortunately, the data indicates another reality altogether. Mike Mandel has been pointing out for sometime that the supposed recovery in [...]
