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Article: Manufacturing sector is up in Orange County: area ranked 10th nationally last year in manufacturing jobs, federal statistics show.(Workplace)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 27, 2005
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There was a time when Orange County was known more for manufacturing than multimillion-dollar homes.
Back in 1990, one in five people in Orange County worked in manufacturing. A lot of others were connected to the sector.
But the end of the Cold War and the aerospace downturn of the early 1990s erased tens of thousands of those jobs, gutting manufacturing in Orange County.
At least that's the perception.
There's little doubt about the aerospace crash and its impact on manufacturing in the region. But the reality is manufacturing still is big in Orange County--and it's rebounding from the downturn of the early 2000s recession.
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