“During a visit to the Chelyabinsk Forging and Pressing Plant. From left to right: Chelyabinsk Region Governor Alexei Teksler, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Urals Federal District Vladimir Yakushev, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov, Director of the Chelyabinsk Forging and Press Plant Andrei Gartung, and Presidential Aide Maxim Oreshkin.”
There is occasional interest in manufacturing of discrete products in the US by its politicians.
It is selective, e.g. the manufacture of chips. There is zero interest and likely understanding of what it takes to design and manufacture 'things.' Looking CNC machines, rolling mills, stamping equipment I find inspiring. The process industry, chemicals, oil, gas, is visually less appealing but essential to any economy as well.
This part of the economy has little glamour, the value of existence now giving way to entertainment and following the A-list attentively. Post any selfies lately?
Amazing there's only your reply to this article. It's likely many have a similar approach to the politicians you outlined. Little is taught about industry and industrial processes in K-12 in the USA. I wonder how many junior and senior high schools still offer shop classes that at least provide a limited introduction to that world. I wonder how many Euro-Americans could properly build a staircase up a 45 degree slope? And of course, there're many move such questions. What must be built so things can be built? That was the education Peter the Great sought and returned home with. Unwittingly, the West has again taught Russia.
Czar Peter the Great went to Zaandam just north of Amsterdam to learn ship's carpentry. His (small) residence is well preserved. The windmills nearby, relying on renewable energy, provided the energy for industrial wood work.
At age twelve, the male farm kids could be excused from school to help their parents with the harvest. My father, Principal of the two classroom school house in the village, relented to have me join them with harvesting potatoes, then green beans.
At age sixteen I tended bar and the kitchen at the restaurant near the railway station where my father had taken another job. I then worked office jobs in the steel mill nearby and at age eighteen worked as a steelworker, in the blast furnaces, rolling mills, coke ovens (not the Zelensky kind) and inside the holds of ships carrying iron ore and coal. I kept that up throughout college. College also required traineeships, for me I found the Dutch version of Babcox & Wilcox and in the UK United Steel, with one of their plants just south of Hull.
Up close and personal has nothing to do with shop. My generation of US college males knew how to fix cars. I very much enjoyed that, too. After teaching college (no publish, then perish, even if I created an academic computing facility from scratch) I morphed into the R&D of corporate America and even have US and International Patents.
Today's youth, not only in the US, are deprived of all these opportunities and even if they were around the culture would not think them 'cool.'
Yes, but in Russia as we've seen it remains "traditional." Notice how all is done in conjunction with the Labor Collectives. And every Russian knows it was the workers in the factories making the arms that made victory possible along with the skill of the troops. That's a cultural asset the USA will never have.
Henry Kaiser built Liberty and Victory ships in his shipyards, one of them in Permanente CA. To prove a point, workers in the Permanente shipyards worked day and night to manufacture a single Liberty ship in a week, setting a record.
Rosie the Riveter as a sociotype also disagrees with that notion. Most of the WW II manufacturing plants had their workers and managers quite serious about the war effort.
The Victory ships superseded the Liberty ships. The Dutch government bought three after WW II and converted them from cargo to passenger ships to accommodate migration to Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to be sold off in the fifties. In 1966 they leased one for the National Dutch Student Travel Agency. I still have the return ticket for Rotterdam - NYC. My internist in McLean VA made the round trip in 1966.
My comment related to the present, not the past. Here in Oregon, many such ships were built in Portland and Vancouver powered by the dams on the Columbia river. Few vestiges of those days remain. IMO, you'll find the conversation between Putin and the students and workers in the next article revealing of much that you've written about above.
There is occasional interest in manufacturing of discrete products in the US by its politicians.
It is selective, e.g. the manufacture of chips. There is zero interest and likely understanding of what it takes to design and manufacture 'things.' Looking CNC machines, rolling mills, stamping equipment I find inspiring. The process industry, chemicals, oil, gas, is visually less appealing but essential to any economy as well.
This part of the economy has little glamour, the value of existence now giving way to entertainment and following the A-list attentively. Post any selfies lately?
Amazing there's only your reply to this article. It's likely many have a similar approach to the politicians you outlined. Little is taught about industry and industrial processes in K-12 in the USA. I wonder how many junior and senior high schools still offer shop classes that at least provide a limited introduction to that world. I wonder how many Euro-Americans could properly build a staircase up a 45 degree slope? And of course, there're many move such questions. What must be built so things can be built? That was the education Peter the Great sought and returned home with. Unwittingly, the West has again taught Russia.
Czar Peter the Great went to Zaandam just north of Amsterdam to learn ship's carpentry. His (small) residence is well preserved. The windmills nearby, relying on renewable energy, provided the energy for industrial wood work.
At age twelve, the male farm kids could be excused from school to help their parents with the harvest. My father, Principal of the two classroom school house in the village, relented to have me join them with harvesting potatoes, then green beans.
At age sixteen I tended bar and the kitchen at the restaurant near the railway station where my father had taken another job. I then worked office jobs in the steel mill nearby and at age eighteen worked as a steelworker, in the blast furnaces, rolling mills, coke ovens (not the Zelensky kind) and inside the holds of ships carrying iron ore and coal. I kept that up throughout college. College also required traineeships, for me I found the Dutch version of Babcox & Wilcox and in the UK United Steel, with one of their plants just south of Hull.
Up close and personal has nothing to do with shop. My generation of US college males knew how to fix cars. I very much enjoyed that, too. After teaching college (no publish, then perish, even if I created an academic computing facility from scratch) I morphed into the R&D of corporate America and even have US and International Patents.
Today's youth, not only in the US, are deprived of all these opportunities and even if they were around the culture would not think them 'cool.'
Yes, but in Russia as we've seen it remains "traditional." Notice how all is done in conjunction with the Labor Collectives. And every Russian knows it was the workers in the factories making the arms that made victory possible along with the skill of the troops. That's a cultural asset the USA will never have.
I respectfully disagree.
Henry Kaiser built Liberty and Victory ships in his shipyards, one of them in Permanente CA. To prove a point, workers in the Permanente shipyards worked day and night to manufacture a single Liberty ship in a week, setting a record.
Rosie the Riveter as a sociotype also disagrees with that notion. Most of the WW II manufacturing plants had their workers and managers quite serious about the war effort.
The Victory ships superseded the Liberty ships. The Dutch government bought three after WW II and converted them from cargo to passenger ships to accommodate migration to Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to be sold off in the fifties. In 1966 they leased one for the National Dutch Student Travel Agency. I still have the return ticket for Rotterdam - NYC. My internist in McLean VA made the round trip in 1966.
My comment related to the present, not the past. Here in Oregon, many such ships were built in Portland and Vancouver powered by the dams on the Columbia river. Few vestiges of those days remain. IMO, you'll find the conversation between Putin and the students and workers in the next article revealing of much that you've written about above.