Why America Deliberately Destroyed Its Manufacturing Industry

Click to reserve a copy of our book: → mettlehistory.co.uk ← Remembering the Britain that made things. ——— Why did America deliberately destroy its own manufacturing industry? It did not happen all at once. Americans watched their own country lose it, brand by brand, factory by factory. The Pontiac in the driveway. The Zenith in the living room. The steel in every bridge you cross. One by one the lines went quiet, the names were sold overseas, and the towns around them came apart. Every time, the country was handed the same three reasons. The Japanese. The unions. The robots. It looked inevitable. And every one of them was true enough to believe. That was the trick. Plenty of those factories were still making money the day they were ordered shut. They closed anyway, on the say-so of men who had never worked a shift in their lives and grew richer each time another one went dark. To understand what happened to American manufacturing, you need two words. They were never hidden. They were said out loud in one boardroom, then copied into the next, until the richest industrial nation on earth had been rebuilt into a machine for taking itself apart.