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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Slade, Rachel, author.     Subjects     Textile industry -- United States -- History.     Clothing trade -- United States -- History.     Free trade -- History.     Labor unions -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Slade, Rachel, author.       by title:      Making it in America...         MARC Display

Making it in America : the almost impossible quest to manufacture in the U.S.A. (and how it got that way) / Rachel Slade. by Slade, Rachel, author. New York : Pantheon Books, [2024] Subjects Textile industry -- United States -- History.   Clothing trade -- United States -- History.   Free trade -- History.   Labor unions -- United States -- History. ISBN:  9780593316887 (hardcover) : 0593316886 Description:  xiii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents:  Preamble: The traffic jam that never ends -- Introduction: The high cost of cheap stuff -- Maine roots -- The kid is okay -- Greed is a real thing -- Witness -- She's outta your league -- Reboot -- Let's make something -- Game on -- New Americans -- a brief history of the hoodie -- Just pull it and it's done -- 54 operations -- Can you make 5000? -- The fabric king of 38th Street -- Follow the river -- It takes Chutzpah -- Pandemic panic along Route 66 -- We'll come back -- We gotta shut up and listen -- An omen -- Cornering the cotton market -- Labor pains -- Your job is to produce -- The never-ending quest for smart money -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Meet Ben and Whitney Waxman, two tireless idealists attempting to do the impossible: produce an American-made, union-made, all American-sourced sweatshirt--an American hoodie. Ben spent a decade organizing workers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin, fighting for Americans at a time when national support for unions had sunk to an all-time low. Struggling with depression and a drug dependency, Ben lands back in his hometown of Portland, Maine, desperate to prove that ethical manufacturing is possible. There, he meets Whitney, a bartender wrestling with her own complicated past. In each other they see a better future, a version of the American dream they can build together. Making It in America is a deeply personal account of one couple's quest to change the world. As they navigate private struggles, international trade wars, and a global pandemic, their story carries us across the nation and across time, from the cotton fields of Mississippi to New York City's hollowed-out garment district to a family-owned zipper company in Los Angeles to the enormous knit-and-dye factories in North Carolina. Throughout, we grapple with what "Made in the USA" really means to Americans in the twenty-first century." -- Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Adult New Books 338.47677 Sl Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 338.47677 Sl Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mountain View P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 338.47677 Sl Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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