Contributors from a range of social sciences critically review current manufacturing processes, practices, and policies, highlighting how firms and industries modify existing production
processes for established and emerging markets through dynamic and design-driven strategies. The topics include preliminary evidence from the US and Britain on how financialization affects
manufacturing investment, intellectual property and patents: knowledge creation and diffusion, machine tools as an example of new geographies of advanced manufacturing, stability amid
industrial change: the geography of US de-industrialization since 1980, and challenges and solutions for retaining and recruiting manufacturing workers. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc.,
Portland, OR (protoview.com)
