Steelworker James Borgan knows firsthand what’s driving the U.S. economic rebound. Business at his mill in Brackenridge, Pa., which makes specialty steel for electrical transformers, is the best it has been since at least the summer of 2008, before the wrenching effects of the credit crisis, he says.

“When we get increased orders, we need more hands on deck, so that’s more people working,” says Borgan, 56, a union employee at the plant, which is owned by Allegheny Technologies Inc. Manufacturing is leading the U.S. out of this recession, and Borgan and his co-workers are part of it.

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