first becoming masters of the shop floor.
"The Myth of U.S. Deindustrialization"
Robert Z. Lawrence, in Challenge
(Nov.-Dec. 1983), 80 Business Park Dr.,
U.S. Industry Armonk, N.Y. 10504.
Across the United States, dozens of steel mills, auto plants, and "smokestack" factories of all kinds have closed. Yet despite widespread fears that America is "deindustrializing," contends Lawrence, a Brook- ings Institution economist, U.S. manufacturers are actually outper-...