Why Manufacturing’s Last Boom Will Be Hard To Repeat
American manufacturing’s postwar boom from the 1940s through the 1970s resulted from conditions that cannot be recreated, a story on WSJ argues. Global competitors had been destroyed by war. Energy was cheap. Unions could demand concessions without fearing job losses to foreign rivals.

Strikes were frequent in steel, auto, trucking, rubber and coal mining. That relentle … ⌘ Read more