Which of the following best explains the "deindustrialization" of the period after 1980? the end of government protection and support for manufacturing the taking over of manufacturing by digital and virtual technology the decline of the manufacturing industry and its related jobs the expansion of industries unrelated to traditional manufacturing

The correct answer should be the decline of the manufacturing industry. Factories and manufacturing plants started closing down since the companies could earn a lot more if they outsourced businesses and factories to foreign countries. They would pay foreign workers way less salaries than they would pay American workers so the manufacturing plants started closing down and entire cities started getting deindustrialized.