Making It in America : The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way) 9780593316894, 9780593316887

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Table of contents :
How to Make an All-American Hoodie
Preamble: The Traffic Jam That Never Ends
Introduction: The High Cost of Cheap Stuff
Maine Roots
This Kid Is Okay
Greed Is a Real Thing
Witness
She’s Outta Your League
Reboot
Let’s Make Something
Game On
New Americans
A Brief History of the Hoodie
Just Pull It and It’s Done
54 Operations
Can You Make 5,000?
The Fabric King of 38th Street
Follow the River
It Takes Chutzpah
Pandemic Panic Along Route 66
We’ll Come Back
We Gotta Shut Up and Listen
An Omen
Cornering the Cotton Market
Labor Pains
Your Job Is to Produce
The Never-Ending Quest for Smart Money
Epilogue

Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

Making It in America : The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)
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