Economists debate why manufacturing has been more prone to unionization, but one leading explanation is the fact that workers in this industry tend to work at one large workplace (the factory) and, at ...

The real challenge facing U.S. manufacturing isn’t job growth. It’s whether workers can move into higher-skill roles.

Whenever President Trump’s tariff fiasco comes to an end, we will turn attention to the lasting impacts. It is not a pretty picture. One of the many contradictory explanations of the Trump tariffs is ...

The goal of Major Tool and Machine’s two-day camp was to show seventh to ninth graders different careers within manufacturing. Students were able to participate in various hands-on activities, such as ...

U.S. tariffs disrupted Canada’s manufacturing sector in 2025, but their labour-market effects didn’t impact immigrant and Canadian-born workers the same.

A worker at the Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) A Trump critic, Crawford is mostly skeptical that tariffs will lead to more or better jobs. But Crawford’s ...

President Trump has been upending the global economy in the name of bringing manufacturing back. President Joe Biden signed into law massive investments aimed at doing something similar. The American ...

This is Part 2 in our series on manufacturing in America. Part 1 asked why Americans aren't filling the manufacturing jobs that are already here. Subscribe to the Planet Money newsletter for the next ...

Manufacturing pays a premium "Manufacturing is special," says Gordon Hanson, an economist at Harvard Kennedy School who has published influential research on American manufacturing. " That's because ...