deindustrialization

• “DH: There had been, during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, a steady process of deindustrialization, that is, the loss of manufacturing jobs.”

  Indymedia Scotland Features RSS Feed

• “Manufacturing was hit especially hard: From 2001 to 2004, manufacturing lost more jobs than during the entire "deindustrialization" years from the late 1970s through the 1980s, and those losses continued throughout the entire 2002-2007 expansion.”

  Rob Shapiro: Solving the Problem with Jobs and Wages

• “Politicians tend to equate unemployment with "deindustrialization," as they respond to unemployed steel-workers marching across the television screen.”

  Newsweek: Can Anyone Spare A Job?

• “In the mid-1980s we were warned that America's "deindustrialization" was making us a nation of low-paid hamburger flippers and laundry workers (see "We're Not a National Laundromat"); the notion couldn't survive the economic boom of the 1990s.”

  Newsweek: Book Excerpt: 'Untruth: Why The Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong'

• “The recession, added to longstanding trends such as deindustrialization and the decline of union jobs - which have affected male workers disproportionately - is hastening this cultural shift away from traditional ideals of married families.”

  ajc.com - News

• “In Detroit, the devastating economic effects of deindustrialization continue to push inhabitants away from what was once the fourth-largest city in America.”

  The Huffington Post: Haunting Images Of Detroit's Decline (PHOTOS)

• “Think about the trillions in Bush liabilities, the deindustrialization, the disastrous foreign and domestic policies.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Unorthodox Stimulus Proposal

• “The deindustrialization of much of northern Britain was the other side of the coin, leading to big job losses in traditional industries such as mining, steel, shipping, and manufacturing.”

  Simon & Schuster: Zero-Sum Future

• “We must reckon nowadays with the spreading “deindustrialization” of the U.S.,”

  Letters to the Editor

• “Especially when you consider that the 1990s were a time of deindustrialization and the growth of a high-end-skewed “knowledge economy,” those are remarkably similar growth rates. change Says:”

  Matthew Yglesias » Grounds for Optimism

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