Start with high-confidence manufacturing industry books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
How Things Are Made
Tim Minshall
The China Price
Alexandra Harney, Karen White
Made in the USA
Vaclav Smil
Factory Man
Beth Macy
Poorly Made in China
Paul Midler
American Flannel
Steven Kurutz
Making It in America
Rachel Slade
Unmade in China
Jeremy R. Haft
How Asia Works
Joe Studwell
The U.s. Steel Industry in Recurrent Crisis
Robert Crandall, Robert W. Crandall
On the Line at Subaru-isuzu
Laurie Graham
American Made
Dan DiMicco, David Rothkopf
American Drive
Richard E. Dauch, Hank H. Cox
Roots of Steel
Deborah Rudacille
Made in America
Christopher Payne, Simon Winchester
American Manufacturing 2.0
Steven L. Blue, Bill McDermott
The Titanium Economy
Asutosh Padhi, Gaurav Batra
Dark, Dirty, Dangerous
Karla Trotman
Tradition Meets Transformation
Laurie Harbour, Scott Walton
