The whole idea of deindustrialization is driven by the dwindling number of good pay and benefits jobs for unskilled barely literate/numerate workers. The US is still setting manufacturing output records. But with fewer and fewer workers just like farming jobs. Automation and advanced manufacturing techniques coupled with massive capital investment keeps dwindling the number of manual laborers. The industry jobs of yore are never ever coming back no matter how many factories are re-shored.
Tariffs will not help our manufacturing base. There are far more jobs in steel fabrication then steel making which means cheap steel yield more jobs in fabricating. Raise steel prices preserves a few jobs in steel making but cost far jobs in fabricating.
What are you talking about?
We desperately need the pincer action tariffing cheap imports and sending home 10s of millions of illegal workers.
Because our working class hasn’t benefited at all from our rise in productivity. (If it had, beginning wages would be approximately 2.5x higher than they are.)
Still lots of jobs from producing stuff here — and fatally vulnerable supply chains that China will surely exploit if we don’t bring them home.