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Your context is that US manufacturing was uncompetitive by the early 1970’s? Gonna need to back that one up.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Your context is that US manufacturing was uncompetitive by the early 1970’s? Gonna need to back that one up.
- roenxi 3y ago* Becoming unproductive from the 1970s. The difference is one of velocity rather than location. If we're talking "global manufacturing excellence" the trends have been favouring Asia for a while. See also https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ where a bunch of important changes are showcased. Modern management styles that aren't good make a lot of sense sense when considering a lot of those graphs. Financial shenanigans have a lot more payoff than manufacturing, and manufacturing gets harder as the energy squeeze happens.