Workers prepare engine cylinder liners for packaging at the US distribution arm of ZYNP China Manufacturing, in Romulus, Michigan, near Detroit. Michael Barris / China Daily Despite the Motor City’s bankruptcy filing last week, its abundant engineering talent and car history lure Chinese automobile companies seeking global expansion, as Michael Barris […]
Politicians love promoting “made in America” during an election season but tend to forget about it once the dust settles. And so, for all the praise of American manufacturing in the last campaign — by Democrats and Republicans alike — very little has actually been done. So what happened to a […]
Moto X Colors Thousands of Android devices have been made by consumer electronics manufacturers. Maybe you know the Samsung Galaxy S4 or a Verizon Droid, but the rest of them can easily blend together. Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Breaking News | Celebrity News | More ABC News Videos But, after a year in the works, […]
Factory workers assembling the Moto X will make as little as $9-an-hour, if the help wanted ads are to be believed. Reposted from The Atlantic Today, Google-owned Motorola is officially announcing the new Moto X, an Android-powered device that, as its ads remind us, will be the first smartphone actually manufactured in the […]
The President of the United States will be speaking about rebuilding America’s middle class from the depths of an Amazon warehouse in Tennessee. His message and the site from which he’ll deliver it are dissonant, given Amazon’s prominence as a massive importer and employer of temporary workers, two truths that make it harder […]
Bangladeshi garment workers shout slogans during a protest in Dhaka, on July 14, 2013. Hundreds of Bangladeshi garment workers have set fire to their factory to demand a better bonus before the country’s main Muslim festival. police tell AFP. (AFP/File) DHAKA (AFP) – Hundreds of Bangladeshi garment workers set fire to […]
Lakishka Raybon hunches over her work station, ear buds tucked neatly in place. With a pair of tweezers in one hand and a stylus in the other, she carefully lifts each tiny component from a tray and delicately places it inside the quarter-sized circle that will soon become a wristwatch. It […]
Each pair of jeans from the All American Clothing Co. comes with a Certificate of Authenticity to showcase that it was made with USA materials by USA workers. People around the country are getting prepared for the upcoming school year with ‘back to school’ sales popping up in almost every corner. […]
It’s clear that “made in America” is an evolving trend affecting the industrial real estate market today. Reposted from GlobeST.com: As manufacturers continue to weigh the costs of moving goods in today’s market, increases in labor, shipping, and fuel expenses are driving many global companies to bring production back to North America. The result is an increasing […]
In the wake of Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza disaster, consumers are showing new interest in brands that do right by their workers. No matter how many people switch to thrift store shopping or donning dresses stitched by a local designer, fast fashion isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. But big retailers such as H&M operate on such […]
