Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The decline of American manufacturing
What's it like to watch your job leave the U.S.? After an Indiana steel plant closed, one worker had to train her Mexican replacement.
By Madeleine Brand • • 47m ListenPhoto of a factory sold and scheduled to be torn down in Anderson, Indiana. (By Jason Kelm)
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4 storiesU.S. loses manufacturing jobs -- many to Mexico
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