Guardian: The US 'manufacturing renaissance' doesn't exist, says new report

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3. But when they left the farms there were factories in the cities.

Here in Austin-which was once hailed as Silicon Valley II-there is nothing now.
TI, IBM, Motorola, Radian, IBM, MCC all are gone. There's a couple of research facilities that hire a few dozen engineers and a few workers but nothing is actually produced here
Dell only runs a call center in Round Rock-no computers built there anymore.
The last place I worked, Solectron, was running 24/7 when the layoffs hit in 2001. They went to a 8 hr shift 5 days a week. They were bought out by Flextronics in 2007. Out of 25 job listings here in their Austin location, 8 required engineering degrees, 16 were either management or sales, 1 was for a technician with an associates degree like mine-and they were only offering $1/hr more than what I was making in 2001.