Factory Jobs Are Booming Like It's the 1970s

[RandySF]

WASHINGTON — Ever since American manufacturing entered a long stretch of automation and outsourcing in the late 1970s, every recession has led to the loss of factory jobs that never returned. But the recovery from the pandemic recession has been different: American manufacturers have now added enough jobs to regain all that they shed — and then some.

The resurgence has not been driven by companies bringing back factory jobs that had moved overseas, nor by the brawny industrial sectors and regions often evoked by President Biden, former President Donald J. Trump and other champions of manufacturing.

Instead, the engines in this recovery include pharmaceutical plants, craft breweries and ice-cream makers. The newly created jobs are more likely to be located in the Mountain West and the Southeast than in the classic industrial strongholds of the Great Lakes.


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/business/factory-jobs-workers-rebound.html

[True Blue American]

1. Bloomberg

And others are reporting on companies yanking jobs out of China. Big mistake concentrating on profit for shareholders and cheap labor. The main reason we are getting shoddy goods.

[Auggie]

2. Classic marketing adjustment -- product quality and distribution. This is huge.

One reason for the decline in Nazism following WWII, I have read, was job creation in Germany. The staunchest supporters of the Third Reich, who remained in hiding or kept silent, softened as they were offered good jobs and decent wages. I'm thinking the same thing with some of these MAGATs in the US. Not all, but some.

[Phoenix61]

3. Beer and ice-cream! My two favorite food groups. nt

[gratuitous]

4. Well, this is really good news

Anybody besides the Times talking about this?