By William H. Thiesen
From Baird Maritime:
The almost precipitous decline of American shipbuilding from its zenith 65 years ago makes if difficult, perhaps, to accept that American shipbuilders led the world for more than a century.
Rapacious unions, slack management and interfering politicians have united and conspired to shrink American shipbuilding to a pale shadow of its former self.
This very valuable and educational history returns us to the glory days of innovation, co-operation and efficiency of the highest order. Everything that America used to be best at. The "Can Do" country.
Rather like the Japanese and Koreans in the twentieth century, nineteenth century American shipbuilders studied the best technology from around the world and improved it. This "benchmarking" formed the basis of America's maritime "great leap forward".
The author describes it very well. Modern shipbuilders, indeed all industrialists, could learn a lot from this excellent book.
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