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Everyone is rightly focused on his "low wage foreigners" comment but I'm infuriated by the "we're going to restore dignity to the working class by bringing back manufacturing." NO YOU WON'T. MASS HIGH WAGE FACTORY EMPLOYMENT FOR NON-COLLEGE EDUCATED WORKERS IS NOT COMING BACK. YOU KNOW THIS.

I absolutely adore Bruce Springsteen, but I really think he has to shoulder a lot of the blame for normalising this odd historical blip as How Men Earn A Living.

I’m not entirely convinced that an artist writing about the world they see around them is responsible for Republican Party messaging but maybe that’s just me

I think the problem is less pointing out that the disappearing of manufacturing in, i.e., Allentown, sucked for a lot of people is less of a problem than the number of politicians whose solution to it was "make it 1962 again by science or magic"

As a kid I'd hear people lamenting that you used to be able to graduate high school, start at the mill the next day, and work there until you retired. They spoke of this like it had been that way since the dawn of time, rather than a deal that exactly one generation got.

Also Health & Safety were a tad lacking. The more regulation you bring in, the more educated individuals you need.

It just makes me so mad because, as much as I loathe talk about 'economic anxiety' I can hardly blame people for expecting mass manufacturing jobs to magically re-appear when POLITICIANS KEEP PROMISING THAT. Makes me so mad I want to write a book. (This book). www.amazon.com/dp/191448711...

I enjoyed this. If it’s not manufacturing, what are the alternatives? Care? Energy/Infrastructure? Services? Perhaps they aren’t as palatable as the perception of a factory job?

It's almost certainly services (which include everything you listed). Manufacturing + Farms employ like 9-11% of Americans and that number is not likely to go up. Most people do and will work in services and that's... not a bad thing just because we've gendered ourselves into thinking it is.

A better solution would be to plough money into churning out more knowledge workers, but donors would not be happy.

Just services generally, but we've decided that's all too Gen-Z Boss and a Mini coded and so we must yearn for some mines.

As an engineer at a Caterpillar plant I talked to a couple, husband and wife, both forklift operators. Cat had replaced about half of the forklifts with robots, but remaining still required humans. Yet they all got laid off, lost their union jobs, only to be promptly hired back as workers for a...

Yes, but have you READ it? Only kidding - brilliant book. I recommend it to my delegates.

One thing needed in numbers is electricians. Many manual jobs are needed just different ones. Or niche ones. I know an engineer who produces precision vacuums for labs.