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Um artigo sobre uma fiação como exemplo do retorno da produção fabril aos Estados Unidos. Um artigo que refere a importância da proximidade e a maldição das longas cadeias de fornecimento, que refere o impacte da automatização e a mudança do posto de trabalho:
"In 2012, textile and apparel exports were $22.7 billion, up 37 percent from just three years earlier. While the size of operations remain behind those of overseas powers like China, the fact that these industries are thriving again after almost being left for dead is indicative of a broader reassessment by American companies about manufacturing in the United States.Quando li:
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In 2012, the M.I.T. Forum for Supply Chain Innovation and the publication Supply Chain Digest conducted a joint survey of 340 of their members. The survey found that one-third of American companies with manufacturing overseas said they were considering moving some production to the United States, and about 15 percent of the respondents said they had already decided to do so.
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“We just avoid so many big and small stumbles that invariably happen when you try to do things from far away,” he said. “We would never be where we are today if we were overseas. Nowhere close.” (Moi ici: Este é o grande trunfo que a nossa indústria pode usar na Europa, o trunfo da proximidade, da flexibilidade, da capacidade de resposta, da customização)
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Time was foremost among them. The Indian mill needed too much time — three to five months — to perfect its designs, send samples, schedule production, ship the fabric to the United States and get it through customs. Mr. Winthrop was hesitant to predict demand that far in advance.
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There were also communication issues.
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But truth be told, labor is not a big ingredient in the manufacturing uptick in the United States, textiles or otherwise. Indeed, the absence of high-paid American workers in the new factories has made the revival possible.
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“Most of our costs are power-related,”
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All that automation has made working in the mill — which once meant mostly dead-end jobs for people with no other options — desirable for many people." (Moi ici: E o Lazear que anda a escrever e a publicar papers a explicar que a retoma sem criação de emprego se deve à actuação dos trabalhadores)
"Between 2000 and 2011, on average, 17 manufacturers closed up shop every day across the country,"Pensei logo no que aconteceu em Portugal pela mesma altura, a altura em que a côrte andava entretida com o dinheiro fácil e barato, altura em que Mira Amaral pensa que a globalização não chegou ao têxtil português poupando-o... a culpa não foi do euro. A moeda americana não era o euro, ... o que é que era comum? A China!
