ABSTRACT
The process of deindustrialization, which began in earnest in the United States in the 1970s, has had a strong impact on working people in the United States. Well-paid industrial jobs for high school graduates and immigrants without language skills have all but disappeared, as industry migrated to the global South, non-industrial regions where workers were paid a small fraction of what the largely unionized American labor force had come to expect (Doussard et al., 2009; Hill and Negry, 1987; Wilson, 1996). A powerful indicator of the transformation of the American economy is easily available to anyone who cares to investigate the place of production of most of the goods available to us. Simply look at the place of manufacture on clothing tags and on other commodity goods.
