Yves Smith, The Decline of Manufacturing in America: A Case Study, Naked Capitalism, 05 September 2011.
There are also many insightful comments accompanying the article.
Note: Yves Smith is the author of ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, March 2010. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Read it if you want to understand the origins of the USA's current economic problems.