During the 1960s expansion, moreover, before the great opening of the U.S. economy to trade, manufacturing wages grew considerably faster than during the 1990s expansion. Chart Twenty-One shows that inflation-adjusted wages during the 1960s expansion outperformed such wages during the 1990s boom even though the 1960s expansion was more than a year shorter.

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