Is it possible to buy American in an age of offshoring? And is that the right goal — for workers, consumers or the planet? The journalist Rachel Slade explores these questions in “Making It in America,” which takes as a case study one small clothing manufacturer in Maine.
Slade follows Ben and Whitney Waxman, who in 2015 founded American Roots with the goal of not only manufacturing in the United States, but also operating with an entirely domestic supply chain.
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