You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Boeing factory workers have expressed concerns about pressures on production speed as the planemaker's ...

"Jobs in factories will come roaring back into our country," said President Trump when he announced reciprocal tariffs last month. "We will supercharge our domestic industrial base." The American ...

On Tuesday, Dedhe Nurhasanah held an Air Jordan in Nike’s downtown Portland store. She’d seen the model before. She works at an Indonesian factory that makes it. The shoe’s price: $205. Nurhasanah’s ...

Despite political rhetoric championing a revival of American manufacturing, employers in heavy industries continue to face steep challenges in recruiting and retaining workers, The Wall Street Journal ...

Across industries, companies are feeling the squeeze from labor shortages, rising costs and nonstop pressure to boost efficiency. Robots are quickly becoming real-life solutions, and their promise has ...

Through boom times and, more recently, slumping sales, Nike Inc. has stuck by a key claim about its overseas suppliers: They pay the average factory worker about twice the local minimum wage. It’s a ...

We often romanticize the American industrial era—the “Arsenal of Democracy,” the sheer scale of production, and the promised opportunity. But for the millions of men and women who clocked in daily, ...

Justin Flint, 27, dropped out of college in 2019 and took a job at a factory. After inventing a fix while employed on the assembly line, he was promoted to software developer. Now, Flint works as a ...