Will manufacturing ever make a come back in the United States?

Question

Will manufacturing ever make a come back in the United States?

Answer 1

I we manufacture items that we create new industries around, then yes.

Answer 2

Never.. Not in a world of Globalized Labor. Manufacturing will shift around the globe as wage pressures cause companies to seek the lowest cost workers. An Americans just cost too much.

So forget about it. Its a pipe dream. The factory jobs in America are gone for good. I suggest all ex-factory workers start taking computer classes or seek our careers in jobs that cannot be exported. You can't export school teachers. You can't export Auto repair shops. You can't export Policemen.  etc...

Answer 3

when the tables turn and we are in third world poverty

Answer 4

Yes I do think it will, when those other countrys economys grow and we cant save money by shipping it over seas then we will revert back to American manufacturing.

Answer 5

Actually, with the rising oil prices which effects the price of shipping, large items manufactured by smaller companies are slowly moving their operations back to the US in an effort to reduce costs. If the current trends continue you may seem more and more of the outsourcing moving back to the US. However, it is more likely in the long term that an alternative fuel and/or means of shipping will be developed.

Answer 6

Because America is a free market economy, it means simply that. Economics have a way of playing themselves out. The stock market goes up and down, etc etc. Where I'm going with this is the longer things are produced overseas, the less competitive advantage it will be in the long run. If we are losing jobs here that means wages and standard of living are going up in other countries. Eventually there will be an equilibrium and it will not be as profitable to produce things in other parts of the world when the return would be just the same to produce them here.

Answer 7

we are nearing the end, or at the end of a import/export economy pendulum's import swing.  If the current recession or advanced inflation isn't curbed soon, the worth of the American dollar in global markets will be low enough that it will become cheaper for us, and for other wealthier nations, to bring manufacturing back to US soil.  That would be the pendulum swinging back to an export economy.  These pendulum swings are common in capitalist and socialized capitalist economies.