Jon Osborne's Blog

Industrial renaissance coming to U.S.?

The U.S. manufacturing sector has been rebounding lately from its 2009-2010 depths, taking industrial temp up with it, a not uncommon but typically short-lived post-recession phenomenon. This time around, however, there may be reason for longer-term optimism as well.

As I mentioned in a blog post back in 2007, and occasionally since then, the relative advantage of cheap industrial labor in places such... More