The 2008 Statistical Abstract: Manufactures.
Summary statistics for manufacturing as a whole and more detailed information for major industry groups and selected products. The types of measures shown at the different levels include data for establishments, employment and payroll, plant and equipment expenditures, value and quantity of production and shipments, value added by manufacture, inventories, and various indicators of financial status.

Gross Domestic Product in Current and Real (2000) Dollars by Industry: 1998 to 2006 (.xls).
Value and structure manufacturing .

Gale encyclopedia of U.S. economic history. Thomas Carson, editor, 1999, The Gale Group.
A comprehensive coverage of American economic history with an emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Company and Industry Profiles. Amanda Quick, editor, 1999, The Gale Group.
Provides information on both the current operations and performance of 280 contemporary public and private U.S.-based and significant foreign-owned companies, in addition to the historical events, people, and strategies that shaped them. An appendix of 35 industry profiles is also included, which give information regarding the industry as a whole.

500 Largest U.S. Manufacturers: Manufacturing Giants.
Industry Week, June 1, 2007.