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Reshoring offers hope to R.I., U.S.
(2013)
  • Koray Özpolat, University of Rhode Island
  • Stu Westin, University of Rhode Island
Abstract

While dining with Silicon Valley executives in February 2011, President Obama asked Steve Jobs what it would take to manufacture iPhones in the United States. Jobs, in his straightforward tone, replied: “These jobs aren’t coming back!” Surprisingly, only two years later, Jobs’s successor Tim Cook announced Apple’s plans to bring some manufacturing jobs home by making the new iMacs in the U.S. Since then, reports of iMacs sporting a backside stamp “Assembled in USA” have flooded the media.

Keywords
  • Reshoring,
  • manufacturing
Publication Date
Fall October 8, 2013
Citation Information
Koray Özpolat and Stu Westin. "Reshoring offers hope to R.I., U.S." (2013)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/koray_ozpolat/7/