Can LA still make it? One in every 15 manufacturing jobs in the United States is to be found in and around Los Angeles. Many may soon be lost.

From: The Economist (US) | Date: July 27, 1991 | Copyright information

One in every 15 manufacturing jobs in the United States is to be found in and around Los Angeles. Many may soon be lost.

PICTURE America's industrial heartland. Does a grimy landscape of Pennsylvanian steel mills and Detroit car plants spring to mind? Images of Bruce Springsteen and "The Deerhunter"? Think again. Los Angeles county is America's manufacturing centre, home to 860,000 such jobs, around 300,000 more than its closest rival, Chicago. Add in the four neighbouring counties-orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura-that together form the Los Angeles metropolitan ...

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