Given the near-thirty year stagnation in real manufacturing wages, it’s not surprising that these wages grew unimpressively even during the 1990s expansion as well. Chart Twenty also shows that whatever takeoff manufacturing wages did experience during these years coincided with the start of the unsustainable technology bubble – in 1996 – when so much manufacturing production took place that was completely unjustified by economic fundamentals.

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