A Proposal for Reviving U.S. Manufacturing and Creating Millions of Good Jobs

Reindustrialiazing America – A Proposal for Reviving U.S. Manufacturing and Creating Millions of Good Jobs, by Robert Pollin and Dean Baker, New Labor Forum 19(2): 17-34, Spring 2010

  • “The U.S. economy faces enormous questions and challenges in attempting to recover from the collapse of 2008-2009. Some of the most pressing questions are short term and cyclical: When will unemployment start falling? When will banks start lending at reasonable levels for productive purposes? At what level will the housing market stabilize and foreclosures fall off? Can an overall economic upswing be sustained? But equally daunting are a series of longerterm, structural challenges: Can we establish a growth engine driven by something other than financial bubbles? Can we renew the automobile industry and, more generally, reestablish a healthy manufacturing sector? Can we accomplish these various tasks while also rebuilding the economy on a new foundation of clean energy as opposed to fossil fuel energy sources? Are all of these projects also compatible with expanding decent job opportunities throughout the U.S. economy? Addressing these longer-term challenges is the overarching theme on which we focus in this paper.”
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