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> In the hey-day of manufacturing things like shoes and clothing in the US, these things weren't considered "good" jobs. My understanding is that a family can
by hintymad 4y ago
> In the hey-day of manufacturing things like shoes and clothing in the US, these things weren't considered "good" jobs.
My understanding is that a family can afford middle-class life with a single blue-collar job with the US has a prosperous manufacturing industry.
> If you're talking about high end manufacturing like cars, planes, specialized steel or similar we still do tons of that in the US.
I thought the market share was declining. The US used to have more than 68% of market share in manufacturing in the world back in 2001 or 2002, but now it is about 40%? It can't be that only low-end manufacturing that is gone, right?
- ch4s3 4y agoOnly some blue collar jobs, specially union jobs in select industries provided that opportunity. It’s also worth noting that it was lower material standard of living than people generally enjoy today in the US. You’re referring to a slice of the whole pie globally, However the pie is much larger now. Every industrial nation other than the US was basically leveled in WWII so we had a huge slice from the jump.