Manufacturing Jobs in the USA

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Written By H. Pike Oliver

Manufacturing employment in the United States of America peaked in the late 1970s.  At that time, we had a population of about 220 million and almost 20 million people working at making things.  Two decades later, in the year 2000, we still had over 17 million manufacturing jobs.  But by October 2010, we were down to less than 12 million people employed in manufacturing and we had a population of about 310 million.  The sad fact is that the US economy lost over five million manufacturing jobs in the first decade of the 21st century--nearly a thirty percent decline in just ten years.

H. Pike Oliver

H. Pike Oliver focuses on master-planned communities. He is co-author of Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN, published by Routledge in 2022.

Early in his career, Pike worked for public agencies, including the California Governor's Office of Planning and Research, where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. For the next three decades, he was involved in master-planned development on the Irvine Ranch in Southern California, as well as other properties in western North America and abroad.

Beginning in 2009, Pike taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in Urban and Regional Studies. He relocated to Seattle in 2013 and, from 2016 to 2020, served as a lecturer in the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington, where he also served as its chair.

Pike graduated from San Francisco State University's urban studies and planning program and received a master's degree in urban planning from UCLA. He is a member of the American Planning Association and the Urban Land Institute and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

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