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Japan, the unions, the robots: each was true enough to believe. This book follows what actually happened, decision by decision, named men on known dates.

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Why America Deliberately Destroyed Its Manufacturing Industry — METTLE

What's in the book

The American half of the story.

Steel, aircraft, cars and televisions, and the towns built around them
The essay that gave the permission: New York Times Magazine, 13 September 1970
The speech at the Pierre Hotel in 1981 that turned it into a method
The men responsible (executives, bankers, consultants, officials of both parties) and the chapters on why

The British half is out now: How Britain Stopped Making Things.