Historically, factory jobs were low paying and grueling. In fact, manufacturing flourished times of economic despair.

They left behind broken cities and devastated local ... Indeed, early American industrial work was demanding, dull, and dangerous. Massachusetts’s early-19th century factories kept workers at their ...

They left behind broken cities and devastated ... Indeed, early American industrial work was demanding, dull, and dangerous. Massachusetts’s early-19th century factories kept workers at their ...

If high tariffs didn’t drive America’s nineteenth-century growth, they won’t boost manufacturing in the twenty-first century. With its cross-country supply chains and fragmented production, today’s ...

Proponents argued that tariffs would shield American workers from the socially deleterious consequences of the industrial revolution that were already observable by the early 19th century in ...

India's textiles were not just beautiful objects; they symbolized the subcontinent's sophisticated manufacturing ... wars of the 19th century could restore the status quo of American dominance.

In the early 19th century, young women were drawn into factory work with the promise of opportunity - but at what cost? The ...

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman takes us through past attempts to use tariffs to boost domestic industries in countries around ...

Can there be a feminist reading of Donald J Trump’s tariff war against the whole universe? Yes indeed, and since nothing else has helped to clear the world’s brain fog, here goes. Those who ...

warning they’ll raise prices on American electronics rather than bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States. “I understand they have 19th century policies of McKinley, but they need to ...

Horowitz’s new book, Cathedrals of Industry, features defunct and enduring examples of America’s industrial past, such as a ...