Manufacturosaurus: Near Extinction

“Manufacturosaurus: Near Extinction” is a compilation of stories detailing the decline of manufacturing in the USA from approximately 1970 to 1990 (Volume 1). Since the early 1970’s we have witnessed the greatest historical period of manufacturing devastation in the history of the United States, an erosion of manufacturing know-how that has left many of our cities in a state of RUST-DECA-OLOPOLIS. We, as a nation, entered a period of “Complacency Sleep.”
The United States is now a country with a national debt exceeding 20 trillion dollars. Nations that are productive and rich thrive and survive. History is replete with failed nation-states. Will we, as a nation, continue to exasperate the current status quo and fall into a “Complacency Creep Sleep?”
The author has worked in a myriad of industrial manufacturing and distribution operations, producing a vast array of products, which has given him rare insight into how things work or, as you are about to learn, often times don’t work. This book is not for the faint of heart and some of the language is corrosive (a manufacturing term.)
This is a difficult, tough subject to address, as the author takes the reader on numerous emotional, wild, educational rides. The stories are based on true incidents (with a 10% allowance for author originality) that occurred behind the Iron Curtain in Poland during the Soviet Occupation, prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. What was it like being one of the few Americans to work in a communist-occupied country? What were the challenges that the author faced each day being followed by the KGB, 24/7/365? How did an American manufacturing company guarantee the quality and performance of a product manufactured under an exclusive licensing agreement with a Soviet Bloc Country?
As if those challenges weren’t enough, the author also worked in the rough-and-tumble automotive industry and the highly competitive, fractions-of-a-penny, cost-conscious electronics industry. He experimented with off-shore manufacturing in Mexico — prior to NAFTA.
The author incorporates dinosaur caricatures coupled with whimsical definitions of their personalities, Gordisms, and geographical pseudonyms, which add a jocular twist to the stories. You will laugh, you will think, you will frown, and some of you will even cry over these real-world events that impacted the lives of tens of thousands of people.
NOSTROVIA!