U.S. manufacturing
Subtitle: the engine for growth in a global economy
By: edited by Thomas J. Duesterberg and Ernest H. Preeg ; foreword by Robert McTeer.
Contributors: Duesterberg, Thomas James, 1950-; Preeg, Ernest H.; Machinery and Allied Products Institute.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Manufacturing industries -- United States; United States -- Foreign economic relations
Other titles: US manufacturing; United States manufacturing
Description: "Globalization has accelerated the growth of the manufacturing sector by increasing competitive pressures to cut costs and develop new products faster, spreading out the fixed costs of R & D and investment. An insider's guide to the future of this critical sector, this book provides policy recommendations based on a wealth of information. Evolving rapidly from a mass-produced product orientation to a flexible, solutions-oriented model, the changing manufacturing sector is poised to lead a global economic recovery. But it can do so only if the right policies are in place in the United States. To that end, the editors of this volume recommend fiscal and tort reform, higher educational achievement, and continued deregulation. At the international level, further trade liberalization and steps to reduce the trade deficit are recommended to ensure the staying power of U.S. competitiveness, particularly for technology-intensive industries."--Jacket.
Notes: "A project of the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and principal conclusions -- Thomas J. Duesterberg; title: The transformation of U.S. manufacturing : a broad analytic framework -- Ernest H. Preeg; title: The changing structure of U.S. manufacturing and its labor force -- Daniel J. Meckstroth; title: The central role of new technology development and application -- Jeremy A. Leonard; title: Broadening value added to include "solutions," customized products, and related services -- Joseph V. Kennedy; title: New paradigms for 21st century manufacturing and their impacts on automation -- Jeffrey F. Werling; title: The rapid globalization of markets for U.S. manufacturing -- Ernest H. Preeg, -- Jeffrey F. Werling; title: The changing nature of the firm -- Donald A. Norman; title: The engine for growth in a global economy : an integrated policy response-- Thomas J. Duesterberg,-- Ernest H. Preeg.