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Reindustrialization
The deliberate reconstruction of national productive capacity, and what stands in its way. Thirteen entries in four chapters, every figure traced to a primary source.
Foundations · What is it?
01What Is Reindustrialization? The definition, how it differs from reshoring, and the measurement dispute underneath the debate. 02What Is the U.S. Industrial Base? Two official definitions that include different companies, one of which covers five countries. 03Reshoring, Onshoring, Nearshoring Three terms for where production sits, and why none measures how much exists.Diagnose · What happened?
04Why American Manufacturing Moved Offshore A sequence rather than a single cause, and which steps are still reversible. 05When Did American Deindustrialization Begin? Three defensible answers, because employment, share and output turned at different times. 06Is American Manufacturing Actually Declining? Three positions on what the employment fall demonstrates, stated at full strength.Rebuild · What constrains it?
07Why Reindustrialization Requires More Electricity Firm power, a demand forecast that quadrupled in four years, and a queue longer than construction. 08The Manufacturing Workforce Constraint Why capital cannot compress a training pipeline, and who pays for skills everyone uses. 09Critical Supply-Chain Dependencies Why concentration predicts disruption and import reliance does not, and why refining binds. 10What Does Reindustrialization Cost? Three cost components, a construction series that is falling, and three numbers routinely conflated. 11Equipment and Tooling The machines that make things are imported, and qualification sits after every other lead time. 12Permitting and the Administrative Path Separate clocks that do not coordinate, and a headline statistic covering one percent of the process.Synthesize · What does it require?
13What Does It Take to Reindustrialize America? Nine inputs, the scarcest sets the ceiling, and three of them have no federal series.