“America’s first generation of Silicon Valley factory workers endured unsafe manufacturing conditions and never got answers about kids born with birth defects.”
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The Can That Was Supposed to Help Save a City
The story of Chill-Can is the story of Youngstown, Ohio’s troubled approach to economic development.
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How Covid-19 Could Reshape Urban Life
Cities were vibrant, culturally rich places to live before the pandemic. We can only speculate about how cities will be after.
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Mexico’s Manufacturing Sector Will Survive With or Without America
Despite president Trump’s desire to build a wall and revise NAFTA, the godfather of Mexico’s manufacturing sector said they will survive.
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TFW You’re Training the Worker That Will Take Your Job Away
What do you do when you’ve only got a G.E.D and your high-paying union job goes to Mexico?
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Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her. Then Her Job Moved to Mexico.
Farah Stockman profiles manufacturing employee Shannon Mulcahy during her last year at Rexnord, a bearing plant in Indianapolis, Indiana that moved to Mexico for cheaper labor. As Mulcahy trains the Mexican men who will eventually take her job, Stockman posits that American workers are not only losing their livelihoods but also their identities — the […]
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A Bakery Death Reveals the Vulnerable Lives of Temporary Workers
A reporter goes undercover in a Canadian factory to document the vulnerable people in the temporary workforce.
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Industrialization and the History of the Matzo Machine
For centuries matzo was a handmade specialty, carefully rolled into a thin, cratered moon shape and pricked with a fork. Today, many Orthodox communities still make this version — called shmurah — which is supervised by a rabbi from start to finish. But industrialization in the mid–nineteenth century forever changed the matzo industry. Historians trace the first […]
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The Battery Breakthrough That Could Juice U.S. Manufacturing
In a new report, McKinsey describes a broad new age of manufacturing that it calls Industry 4.0. The consulting firm says the changes under way are affecting most businesses. They are probably not “another industrial revolution,” it says, but together, there is “strong potential to change the way factories work.” For decades, the US has watched […]