Are we due for a local manufacturing renaissance?
Clip: 9/15/2016 | 8m 54s
Big companies aren't creating nearly as many middle-class jobs. Instead they're hiring out
Big companies today aren't creating nearly as many middle-class jobs. Instead they're hiring out much of the work to contractors around the world. But what if we could reverse engineer our technology to bring about a new era of local manufacturing in the U.S.? Economics correspondent Paul Solman talks with Jerry Davis, author of the new book “The Vanishing American Corporation.”
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Are we due for a local manufacturing renaissance?
Clip: 9/15/2016 | 8m 54s
Big companies today aren't creating nearly as many middle-class jobs. Instead they're hiring out much of the work to contractors around the world. But what if we could reverse engineer our technology to bring about a new era of local manufacturing in the U.S.? Economics correspondent Paul Solman talks with Jerry Davis, author of the new book “The Vanishing American Corporation.”
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