[central_va]

Manufacturing employment has declined in large part because because our manufacturing sector has become much more efficient at using labor.

Bull, it was off shored.

[riverdawg]

Please see Figure 1 in the following study.

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2014/02/us-manufacturing-past-and-potential-future-baily-bosworth/us-manufacturing-past-and-potential-future-baily-bosworth.pdf