The decline in manufacturing employment as a share of total US workforce (from ~30% in 1954 to ~8% today) is not caused by trade but by mechanization and technological innovation; approximately 80% of this decline is due to innovation and only 20% can be directly related to trade.
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Donald BoudreauxEvidence Quote
“it's caused by mechanization it's caused by the very same forces that worldwide and in North America caused the portion of the workforce in agriculture to decline [11:28]”
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