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Book SynopsisA follow-up to Tim Hutzel''s previous book, Keeping Your Business in the USA: Profit Globally While Operating Locally, this book tells the stories of companies that have sent their jobs outside of the USA and the negative effects this had on the quality of their products and services, employees, supply chain providers, and consumers.
Bringing Jobs Back to the USA: Rebuilding America''s Manufacturing Through Reshoring reveals the motivation these companies had to offshore their jobs as well as the errors of omission they made by not understanding the true cost of offshoring. Exposing the true cost of offshoring to US organizations and citizens, it supplies concrete suggestions to help government officials and activists prevent offshoring and incentivize reshoring.
The book provides food for thought for businesses currently thinking about sending US jobs to foreign countries. Outlining a roadmap for reshoring using a step-by-step methodology, it provides bu
Trade Review
Hutzel and Lippert bring a precision of presentation that one would expect of master practitioners in manufacturing. ... I encourage you to read this book not only as a primer on reshoring, but also as a point of inception for your engagement in the movement. ... How can you encourage decision makers and influencers to rally for reshoring? In essence, how can you make a difference?—Chuck Proudfit, President of At Work on Purpose and SkillSource Consulting, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Table of ContentsThe Story of Reshoring. The Hershey Kisses Story. Devastating Trends to Our Economy and Our American Way of Life Caused by Offshoring. The Reshoring Trend. A Decision-Making Model to Reshore … or Not. Prepare for Reshoring. Making the Decision to Reshore Is Just the Beginning. Looking into the Future.
