Manufacturing jobs

In 1950 there were 13 million manufacturing jobs in the US and they peaked at 18.7 million in 1980. If this growth rate had continued there would have been 25 million today but that did not happen. Globalization caused these jobs to move oversea and today we have only 13 million or back to where the country was in 1950. This means a shortage of 12 million manufacturing jobs. Even worse is the fact that over these 45 years the country lost the skilled workers needed to maintain an industrial base.