{"id":532,"date":"2021-02-06T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T03:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/?p=532"},"modified":"2021-02-06T03:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T03:06:01","slug":"if-not-here-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/2021\/02\/06\/if-not-here-where\/","title":{"rendered":"If not here, where? The state of North American manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since 1976, the manufacturing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csls.ca\/reports\/csls2015-18.pdf\">employment share in Canada has fallen almost 76.3 per cent<\/a>, according to the Centre for the Study of Living Standards.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-flourish wp-block-embed-flourish\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/5192038\/embed#?secret=4lvnX04yKB\" data-secret=\"4lvnX04yKB\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"575\" width=\"700\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Bar chart race displaying the industries in canada by people from 1976-2020. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The report outlines various reasons for why this could be occurring, they state \u201c\u2026relatively above-average labour productivity growth in manufacturing; globalization; shifts in final demand expenditures from manufactured goods to services; and, finally, outsourcing from manufacturing to the service sector.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, many still push for the resurrection of the manufacturing industry in North America, in the hopes of reshoring thousands of jobs. One of these examples is Donald Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2021\/02\/pexels-enrico-hA\u00a4nel-5370023-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2021\/02\/pexels-enrico-hA\u00a4nel-5370023-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2021\/02\/pexels-enrico-hA\u00a4nel-5370023-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2021\/02\/pexels-enrico-hA\u00a4nel-5370023-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2021\/02\/pexels-enrico-hA\u00a4nel-5370023-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2021\/02\/pexels-enrico-hA\u00a4nel-5370023-2048x1371.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A photo of an abandoned factory. (Photo by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@enrico-hanel-3409494?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Enrico H\u00e4nel<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/building-industry-dust-broken-5370023\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pexels<\/a><\/strong>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When Trump was in power, one of his many promises was to bring manufacturing back into the country. His plan, however, was one that was not as successful as he originally thought it would be.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to an article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.piie.com\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/trump-trade-war-timeline.pdf\">by the Peterson Institute for International Economics<\/a>, in 2018, Trump declared a trade war with China, stating that he would increase tariffs to 10 per cent by Sep. 24, 2018, on $200 billion of imports from China, followed by a further increase to a 25 per cent tariffs effective on Jan. 1, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many praised Trump for this move, when in reality the manufacturing sector&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/china-trade-war-didnt-boost-u-s-manufacturing-might-11603618203\">started to slowly decline in July of 2018, peaking in December 2018,<\/a>&nbsp;failing to yield the results they sought, according to the Wall Street Journal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the loss of North American based manufacturing, it begs the question \u2013 where are our goods made?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This answer is not an easy one. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, Apple released a list of over<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/supplier-responsibility\/pdf\/Apple-Supplier-List.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/supplier-responsibility\/pdf\/Apple-Supplier-List.pdf\"> 200 companies that handle various parts of their manufacturing process<\/a>. This means hundreds of different factories around the globe manufacturing different parts of each product which after being assembled, end up in our hands thousands of miles away from where they started. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This may be a hard process to imagine, so to illustrate this, let\u2019s track the production process of the iPhone to see exactly how and where our goods are made.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-map\" data-src=\"visualisation\/5195358\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>*This map is simplified as the complete process and specific factory for various components change based on the year*<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1976, the manufacturing\u00a0employment share in Canada has fallen almost 76.3 per cent, according to the Centre for the Study of Living Standards.\u00a0 The report outlines various reasons for why this could be occurring, they state \u201c\u2026relatively above-average labour productivity growth in manufacturing; globalization; shifts in final demand expenditures from manufactured goods to services; and, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[69,70,68,72,71],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canadian-industries","tag-economy","tag-manufacturing","tag-north-american-manufacturing","tag-workforce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}