Tag: manufacturing

The story of Chill-Can is the story of Youngstown, Ohio’s troubled approach to economic development.

Cities were vibrant, culturally rich places to live before the pandemic. We can only speculate about how cities will be after.

Despite president Trump’s desire to build a wall and revise NAFTA, the godfather of Mexico’s manufacturing sector said they will survive.

What do you do when you’ve only got a G.E.D and your high-paying union job goes to Mexico?

A reporter goes undercover in a Canadian factory to document the vulnerable people in the temporary workforce.

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 […]

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 […]