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Note that this effect hasn't just occurred in America but other developed countries (e.g. London, Canada, Australia) all which had more secure work, local manufacturing, local union power/membership, etc and have experienced similar trends as the US.

In our local newspaper there have been many articles about wage stagnation and the decline of our manufacturing base as well - albeit we may be a few years behind America which isn't much in the grand scheme of things.