A moving and eye-opening look at the story of manufacturing in America, whether it can ever successfully return to our shores, and why our nation depends on it, told through the experience of one young couple in Maine as they attempt to rebuild a lost industry, ethically.
Each twist and turn of the Waxmans\' Quest tells us how we got here, where we are now, and where we\'re headed--through the people That produce the fabric of our lives..
Making It in America reveals how profoundly manufacturing shapes all of us.
It was the brutality of the textile industry That first drove workers to organize.
It was the demand for cheap cloth That sparked the industrial revolution.
Making It in America also offers a unique look at global politics, economics, and labor through the story of textile manufacturing.
Throughout, we grapple with what Made in the USA really means to Americans in the twenty-first century.
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.
Making It in America is a deeply personal account of one couple\'s Quest to change the world.
In each other they see a better future, a version of the American dream they can build together.
There, he meets Whitney, a bartender wrestling with her own complicated past.
Struggling with depression and a drug dependency, Ben lands back in his hometown of Portland, Maine, desperate to prove That ethical manufacturing is possible.
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. - From the best-selling author of Into the Raging Sea 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.
A moving and eye-opening look at the story of manufacturing in America, whether it can ever successfully return to our shores, and why our nation depends on it, told through the experience of one young couple in Maine as they attempt to rebuild a lost industry, ethically
