Book DescriptionMending Manufacturing is the most comprehensive book to cover all aspects of the crisis in American manufacturing The author stresses the United States is facing a manufacturing emergency, and unless Washington acts swiftly and decisively, the U S could plummet into a second-class industrial power It reveals the history behind озивъ the industry's outsourcing of jobs and production to foreign nations, and questions whether the U S can sustain as an economic power without a solid manufacturing base. Eplutus2004 г ISBN 0975519905.