Blance spent a week in Hong Kong and photographed more than 60 signs; 22 of them appear in the series that capture the signs lighting up lonely streets—an approach that makes it easy to admire their colors and craftsmanship.

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But at a time when the American factory seems to be a shrinking presence, and when good manufacturing jobs have vanished, perhaps never to return, there is something deeply troubling about this dilution of American craftsmanship.

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The Home Depot approach to craftsmanship - simplify it, dumb it down, hire a contractor - is one signal that mastering tools and working with one's hands is receding in America as a hobby, as a valued skill, as a cultural influence that shaped thinking and behavior in vast sections of the country

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The Obama administration does worry publicly about manufacturing, a first cousin of craftsmanship.

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But rarely, if ever, do they publicly take the argument a step further, asserting that a growing manufacturing sector encourages craftsmanship and that craftsmanship is, if not a birthright, then a vital ingredient of the American self-image as a can-do, inventive, we-can-make-anything people.

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That's one explanation for the decline in traditional craftsmanship

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The damage to American craftsmanship seems to parallel the steep slide in manufacturing employment.

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As for craftsmanship itself, the issue is how to preserve it as a valued skill in the general population

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Milkman, the sociologist, argues that American craftsmanship isn't disappearing as quickly as some would argue - that it has instead shifted to immigrants.

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He felt troubled about the weakening of American craftsmanship

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What does the author say is a factor contributing to the decline in traditional craftsmanship?

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