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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. • From the best-selling author of Ben Waxman spent a decade organizing workers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin, fighting for men and women at a time when national support for unions had sunk to an all-time low.;Frustrated with the state of the world, he lands back in his hometown of Portland, Maine, to rethink his life. There,;he meets Whitney Reynolds, a restless bartender eager for a challenge.;In each other, they see a better future, a version of the American dream they can build together. Ben and Whitney set out to prove that union-made, all-American-sourced apparel manufacturing is possible in the twenty-first century. Their quest takes;us across the nation and across time, from the cotton fields of Mississippi to the hollowed-out garment district in New York City to a family-owned zipper company in Los Angeles to the enormous knit-and-dye houses in North Carolina. While battling anti-immigrant hostility, trade wars, and a global pandemic, they grapple with the true meaning of "made in USA" in our globalized world.
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Rachel Slade
