Editing Jobless recovery (section)

===Industrial consolidation===
Some have argued that the recent lack of job creation in the United States is due to increased [[industrial consolidation]] and growth of [[monopoly]] or [[oligopoly]] power.<ref>[http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1003.lynn-longman.html Who Broke America’s Jobs Machine? Why creeping consolidation is crushing American livelihoods.], by Barry C. Lynn and Phillip Longman, ''[[Washington Monthly]]''</ref> The argument is twofold: firstly, small businesses create most American jobs, and secondly, small businesses have more difficulty starting and growing in the face of entrenched existing businesses (compare [[infant industry argument]], applied at the level of industries, rather than individual firms).