Like the title says, how likely is this? I understand that the material conditions don’t really support it. Additionally, porky is just fine keeping manufacturing over-seas if it means more profit.
Obviously such a move would take decades and would be wrought with environmental havoc. But if not for profit, what if the US government sees it as strategically smart to wean it self from dependence on foreign manufacturing? What sorts of tricks could it pull to return manufacturing to the US?
Naw, manufacturing consent is the only manufacturing the US is gonna be doing I feel
If manufacturing comes back to America, it won't bring jobs with it. high levels of automatization, and no union jobs, only managers and contracted workers. you download an app and bid for shifts, to download the app you waive the right to civil action should labor laws be insufficiently enforced. just spit balling here.
only managers and contracted workers
And this while capitalists can't rid themselves of those two. Automation in the future could very easily lead to a dystopia :scared:
China actually develops the third world > their wages catch up to ours > might as well put the treats factory close to the treat eaters
But the demand for treats will not be as great as before. Treat eaters will not be able to afford as many treats without a third world to exploit. And it doesn't look like the bourgeoisie is going to show restraint when it comes to increasing the exploitation of the working class of the imperial core.
Hordes of angry treat boys will be howling for war.
Might result in a further amplification of inequality. A class of workers who produce the treats domestically, but cannot afford them. And a class who consume the treats. Of course this situation already exists to a certain extent in the US. A return to domestic manufacturing would probably necessitate the increased immiseration of the already impoverished.
Repubs win -> Overtly fascist government -> Expansion of slave labour through Prison system -> manufacturing comes home.
Only way.
Probably closer than you think, but with robots doing the work instead of people
dunno what you're doing wrong, they usually pay me at least $25 worth of free goods to scan my own shit
it really is! i recommend only stealing smaller stuff that you're buying multiples of, especially at first. easier to claim operator/scanner error if you do ever get caught
but i've literally shoplifted while talking directly to an employee, most people just don't notice or care
Yeah just ignore that Ikea has been making out like gangbusters for years.
So I says to him - I says, reindustrialization? I barely knew her!!! Ahhaahahahaha
Return of domestic manufacturing would also result in a resurgent labor movement and unionization, moreso than even the current moment, which is why manufacturing was moved overseas in the first place; I don't see it happening without some major caveat or restructuring of the production relation type to slave labor or automation
Was manufacturing moved abroad to prevent a labor movement, or because porky saw a cheap labor force to exploit? Or was it a little of column A and column B? Genuinely curious.
Tendency of the rate of profit to fall was causing stagnation in profits, so costs had to be cut. Since domestic custom was dependent on a careful balance between prices and wages, the best course was to cut the costs coming from wages while retaining the same prices. Manufacturing was moved, costs lowered, and best of all, no pesky unions to negotiate with
Offshoring came about at a time of loosening of capital controls as well as rapidly advancing information technology such that increasing amounts of data could be captured, analyzed and managed ever more remotely.
This context allows one to see that low-level manufacturing and assembly were shifted to where labor was cheapest often in former colonies whose economies were forcibly opened to foreign investment.
I mean if the us Balkanizes the northeast and rust belt will need to revive their industry before the roving bands of crackers take over
I think at some point it has to, even if that point is "we ran out of bunker fuel for cargo ships". The current form of globalized economy will have to be discarded to save the earth, it's just way too inefficient sending things all over the place the way we do.
