Union Workers on What Their Jobs Built and What They Stand to Lose
At the height of a Washington, D.C., summer heat wave, members of the United Steelworkers came to town for the union's Rapid Response Legislative and Policy Conference — four days of talking legislati...
7 Sep 24min
This Detroit Apparel Factory Stitches Its Own U.S. Supply Chain
He bought a $5 bill’s worth of beanies, sold them, bought more, and, eight years later, he’s manufacturing American-made knitwear in Detroit for brands you’ve heard of. Josh York, founder of Soft Good...
24 Aug 35min
He Sold Everything to Make a Banjo in America
What does it take to build a musical instrument company in America — with no woodworking background and a fear of power tools? Zack Munsell went from a sales job with “no passion” to founding Friendly...
10 Aug 42min
How One Viral Video Brought 600 Orders a Day — and This Utah Maker Wasn’t Ready
Russ Warner just wanted an extra $400 a month for a car payment and to hang with his kids. Instead, a single TikTok from an Ohio teenager racked up 50 million views, buried his made-to-order skateboar...
27 Jul 41min
How One Man Brought the Western Shirt Back to America
AAM President Scott Paul spent 15 years hunting for a Western shirt actually Made in America. He never found one — because almost nobody was making them. Carter Baldwin was on the same hunt, going bac...
13 Jul 42min
How Detroit Built the Machine That Won WWII
Detroit didn't just build cars. During World War II it built the machine that helped win the war. In the final installment of our three-part series on American manufacturing history — marking the 25...
29 Jun 46min
How Pittsburgh Steel Built America’s 20th Century
America turns 250 this year, and the steel that built the modern nation was forged on the banks of the Monongahela. In Part 2 of our three-part series on 250 years of American manufacturing, Scott Pau...
15 Jun 41min
The Englishman Who Smuggled the Industrial Revolution to America
America turns 250 this year, and the story of how it learned to make things starts in one stone building on the Blackstone River. In Part 1 of our three-part series on 250 years of American manufactur...
1 Jun 50min
