Author: Connecticut Development CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Connecticut's Manufacturing Economy
Author: Connecticut Development CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Connecticut in World War II
Author: Mark Allen BakerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
ISBN: 9781540226723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
With the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on December 7, 1941, and the United States' entry into World War II, our nation turned to Connecticut--as it did during World War I--for munitions, clothing, and other goods. And Connecticut answered the call: Manchester Mills increased silk production, Waterbury brass producers altered their manufacturing lines, and Bridgeport's Remington Arms--which had produced 50 percent of the US Army's small arms cartridges in World War I--increased its mass production capabilities. By the time Electric Boat, Hamilton Propellers, Pratt & Whitney, and many other Connecticut companies tallied up their production back in 1945, it amounted to over $8 billion in war contracts.
Advanced Manufacturing
Author: William B. BonvillianPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262037033
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
How to rethink innovation and revitalize America's declining manufacturing sector by encouraging advanced manufacturing, bringing innovative technologies into the production process. The United States lost almost one-third of its manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2010. As higher-paying manufacturing jobs are replaced by lower-paying service jobs, income inequality has been approaching third world levels. In particular, between 1990 and 2013, the median income of men without high school diplomas fell by an astonishing 20% between 1990 and 2013, and that of men with high school diplomas or some college fell by a painful 13%. Innovation has been left largely to software and IT startups, and increasingly U.S. firms operate on a system of “innovate here/produce there,” leaving the manufacturing sector behind. In this book, William Bonvillian and Peter Singer explore how to rethink innovation and revitalize America's declining manufacturing sector. They argue that advanced manufacturing, which employs such innovative technologies as 3-D printing, advanced material, photonics, and robotics in the production process, is the key. Bonvillian and Singer discuss transformative new production paradigms that could drive up efficiency and drive down costs, describe the new processes and business models that must accompany them, and explore alternative funding methods for startups that must manufacture. They examine the varied attitudes of mainstream economics toward manufacturing, the post-Great Recession policy focus on advanced manufacturing, and lessons from the new advanced manufacturing institutes. They consider the problem of “startup scaleup,” possible new models for training workers, and the role of manufacturing in addressing “secular stagnation” in innovation, growth, the middle classes, productivity rates, and related investment. As recent political turmoil shows, the stakes could not be higher.
Minerals in the Economy of Connecticut
Author: The New England Economy and Its Effect on the Region's Small Businesses
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small BusinessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Handbook of Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy
Author: John R. BrysonPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1781003939
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
This interdisciplinary volume provides a critical and multi-disciplinary review of current manufacturing processes, practices, and policies, and broadens our understanding of production and innovation in the world economy. Chapters highlight how firms
Brass Valley
Author: Jeremy BrecherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
For too many years American workers have been cut off from their own roots. When children go to school, they learn little about the people who work in factories and offices, their movements and their efforts for a better life. What is hidden from them is their own legacy, the heritage of culture and struggle handed on from other generations of working people. This book represents a new approach to history. It attempts to pass on that history from one group of workers to other workers, especially as workers and unions are at a crossroads, facing deteriorating conditions and even the permanent loss of jobs. But workers have faced these problems before, and surmounted them. This book can help all understand that our collective history helps us to face the challenges of the present and ones yet unknown of tomorrow. -- Publisher description.
Connecticut, a Dynamic Economy
Author: Connecticut Development CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
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