The single greatest enemy of industrialization is unionism.
Overunionization, overtaxation, and overregulation are paralyzing us.
Environmentalism is running a very close second if not sprinting to the lead.
No it is not. Laws and regulations are. Many non-union manufactures have left the U.S.
Ironically American industry has responded to the challenge of unions, by exporting our factories to the largest organized labor union in human history:
The Peoples Republic of China.
The Union members are now figuring out that those at the top are the only ones who are benefiting from this relationship, at least in the private sector......
That's just plain nonsense if you stop and think about it because it isn't just manufacturing that has lost jobs. Hundreds of thousands of American jobs have been sent overseas in dozens of industries, both manufacturing or service. The overwhelming majority of those jobs were not unionized. The greatest enemy of industrialization is the fact that a worker in China makes a tiny fraction of what a worker in the U.S. does, unionized or non-unionized. You could have done away with unions decades ago and it wouldn't have saved many jobs.