Manufacturing

Can the country become the next major player in the global apparel industry without sacrificing its environment? Near Ho Chi Minh City, one factory owner is assembling a greener model ... out of blue jeans.

• By George Black

In retrospect, it's clear how globalization and free trade disrupted the U.S. steel industry. It could be happening again. Survival for steel towns might be a matter of lower expectations and good luck.

• By Kevin Nolan

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Bill Fletcher Jr.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Ryan Harper

Get ready for an unprecedented economic boom in the United States.

• By Jim Russell

In 2006, the digital economy underwent a dramatic transformation that changed the map of talent migration.

• By Jim Russell

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Louis Hyman

Public libraries are becoming a one-stop shop for manufacturing in the digital age. Because libraries are investing in machines like 3-D printers, someday soon everyone with access to a public library could become an inventor or create something.

• By Justin Lynch

Zero manufacturing employment: Coming soon to a regional economy near you.

• By Jim Russell

Too much social capital—not too little—is driving a wedge of income inequality between Americans.

• By Jim Russell

Separate a real estate market into two parts: investors and occupiers.

• By Jim Russell

The basketball star isn't the only one moving back to Ohio. Even with manufacturing on the decline, Cleveland is drawing talented migrants from other areas.

• By Jim Russell

From 1960s Korea, through Brazil, to today's Los Angeles: Inside the world that brought you Forever 21—and those skinny jeans in your closet.

• By Christina Moon

In Silicon Valley, the cost for talent is too high—and climbing. Will smart technology companies start moving to smaller markets? Behold the brave new economic geography.

• By Jim Russell

Peter Thiel is concerned that innovation cannot afford San Francisco or New York City.

• By Jim Russell

What the "Made in America" rebirth looks like.

• By Jim Russell

After the deadly building collapse in Bangladesh, Walmart released a list of factories it had banned. But it has continued receiving shipments from two of them.

• By Michael Grabell

The Innovation Economy peaked with the last financial crisis. In the emerging epoch—the Talent Economy—the competition among companies like Google and Facebook for the same pool of ideas makers will reshape our cities.

• By Jim Russell