Tomorrow: The Future of Manufacturing and Working-Class Communities

The Center for Working-Class Studies Lecture Series welcomes Manufacturing and Technology News editor Richard McCormack to campus Thursday. There is a public lecture in the evening from 7:30-9:00 p.m. entitled “Working-Class Communities and the Future of Manufacturing.” The lecture will be held in Kilcawley Center’s Chestnut Room.

At 4 p.m., there is a forum for business, economic and political science students and faculty in Kilcawley Center.

More about the event:

The ability to rebuild our manufacturing base has never been more critical to America and the Mahoning Valley. Doing so would help to create more jobs, reduce harmful trade imbalances and strengthen the US economy. Richard McCormack’s lecture will outline the challenges and opportunities facing America as it attempts to restore its manufacturing base.

Richard McCormack is the editor & publisher of the Manufacturing & Technology News. The paper is read by executives in industry, government and academia on five continents. McCormack has spent 22 years in Washington, D.C., as a journalist covering science and technology, industry and government. Mr. McCormack is also the editor of new book on manufacturing and public policy, Manufacturing a Better Future for America (2009). Prior to creating Manufacturing & Technology News, he was editor of High Performance Computing & Communications Week, a journal he created while at King Publishing Group in Washington, D.C.

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