Competitive Manufacturing: New Strategies for Regional Development

Stuart A. Rosenfeld presents a timely analysis of the problems the United States and other industrialized countries face as they adjust from economies based on natural resources and goods to economies based on quality of human resources and high-performance, market-oriented organizations. Some of the questions raised include: Will American industry successfully face the competitive challenge of the global economy? Can US manufacturing raise productivity and innovate enough to remain healthy? Have the latest advances in process technology and management practice penetrated the rural industrial base? How can public policy help improve the competitiveness of the crucial manufacturing sector? This book challenges the conventional wisdom in economic development policy. Past state and local industrial policy focused on locational decisions, not on issues of competitiveness. Building the competitive advantage of industry is more important than promoting the competitive advantages of location. Incentives to modernize are more important than subsidies to locate. Competitive Manufacturing uses the rural South, the most industrialized rural region of the nation, to examine the strengths and weaknesses of manufacturing as the basis for economic growth. Using historical analysis, surveys, and intensive case studies, the author analyzes the technological capabilities of rural manufacturing, the factors that influence the decision to modernize, and the effects of technology on education and work. Comparative studies in Denmark and Italy point to new directions for US economic development policy.

Competitive Manufacturing

Business & Money

Rosenfeld, Stuart A.

Industries

Routledge

The study reported here, funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation, investigated the capacities, capabilities, and potential of postsecondary two-year institutions that serve large numbers of minority youth and adults to provide a skilled workforce and assist minority-owned businesses with industrial modernization. The populations served by the predominantly minority institutions (PMI) were African American, Hispanic American, and Native American. The underlying research hypotheses are that (a) certain segments of the population, i.e., African American, Hispanic American, and Native American, are under represented in the ownership and management of industry and in the most technical positions; (b) community colleges are repositories of much of the skill and knowledge needed to enable U.S. companies to participate more fully and globally competitive businesses; (c) few high quality industrial training programs and services for and relationships with industry exist among community colleges serving predominantly underrepresented populations; and (d) there is potential and motivation on the part of predominantly minority colleges can do more for and with industry. --- excerpt from book's Preface

Advancing Opportunity in Advanced Manufacturing: The Potential of Predominantly Minority Two-Year Colleges

Education & Teaching

Kingslow, Marcia E.

Schools & Teaching

Community College Pr/Amer Assoc

Book by Rosenfeld, Stuart A., Bohl, Thomas, Jacobs, James, Styers, Barbara

New Technologies and New Skills: Two-Year Colleges at the Vanguard of Modernization

Jacobs, James

Bohl, Thomas

Styers, Barbara

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