American Manufacturing in a Global Market

Book Overview

The health of American manufacturing has been a cause of real concern during the 1980s. Foreign competition, hostile takeovers, new technologies and a host of other factors have caused dramatic changes in this key sector of the American economy. Many ob- servers of this process of change are singing the "rust belt blues," consigning U.S. manufacturing greatness to the history books. In April 1986, the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401076367
• ISBN13: 9789401076364
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"