Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Dov Charney Stokes American Apparel Rift
Today’s Labor Department report on the latest jobs numbers make it clear that the American workforce has changed a lot in the last 50 years. We’re now adding more service-oriented jobs, while manufacturing growth has slowed. But one company here in L.A. that straddles both is American Apparel.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readToday’s Labor Department report on the latest jobs numbers make it clear that the American workforce has changed a lot in the last 50 years. We’re now adding more service-oriented jobs, while manufacturing growth has slowed. But one company here in L.A. that straddles both is American Apparel. Now, its workers are fighting for more rights, stoked partly by ousted CEO Dov Charney. We take a look at the rift between Charney, new management, and the workers caught in the middle.
