Solving U.S. Worker Shortage in the Renewable Energy Industry23 Jul
In his book, The Betrayal of American Prosperity, Clyde Prestowitz noted that Motorola was one of the first American companies to outsource manufacturing in China a few decades ago. At that time, Chinese workers were poorly trained and ill equipped to perform nearly anything. It was not better K-12 education and universities that came to the rescue, but corporate training and technology transfer in the factory. The initial group of trained workers then taught other workers. Prestowitz observed that, “Indeed, that factory wasn’t going to be so much as a factory as a university.” Perhaps U.S. renewable energy industries could do the same.
Tags: China, Clyde Prestowitz, Motorola, Outsource Manufacturing, Trained Workers