PBS NewsHour

Are we due for a local manufacturing renaissance?

Clip: 09/15/2016 | 8m 54s

Big companies today aren't creating nearly as many middle-class jobs. Instead they're hiring out much of the work to contractors around the world. But what if we could reverse engineer our technology to bring about a new era of local manufacturing in the U.S.? Economics correspondent Paul Solman talks with Jerry Davis, author of the new book “The Vanishing American Corporation.”

Aired: 09/15/16

Rating: NR

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