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In the longtime New York Times economics correspondent, a strongly reported argument for the continuing importance of industry for American success. In the 1950s making generated nearly 30 percent of US income. Over the past 55 years that share has gradually declined to less than 12 percent at the same time that real house, finance, and Wall Street trading have grown. While manufacturing's share of the US market shrinks, it expands in countries such as China and Germany that have a strong commercial policy. Meanwhile Us citizens are just vaguely aware of the many consequences - including a decrease in their self-image as inventive, useful, and effective people - of the increased loss of that industrial base. Yet, with the improbable rise of Donald Trump, the consequences of the hollowing out of America's once-vibrant commercial working class can't be ignored. Confirming from places where things were and sometimes still are "Manufactured in the USA" - Albany, New York, Boston, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. - longtime New York Times economics correspondent Louis Uchitelle argues that the federal government has a crucial role to experiment with in making local manufacturing possible. Merging amazing reportage with an incisive financial and political argument, Making It tells the overlooked tale of manufacturing's still-vital role in america and how it might expand.
