Making it in the USA, or, Building Back Better (with Rachel Slade)

Prevail with Greg Olear

Greg Olear & MSW Media

News Commentary, News, Politics

5 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Where have all the manufacturing jobs gone? Is it possible to bring them back? Can an American manufacturing company exist in today’s market? Greg Olear talks to the best-selling author and journalist Rachel Slade, whose forthcoming new book, “Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way),” explores these and other ideas. They also discuss unions, Reagan, kaizen, floating capital in emerging markets, work culture, China, American Roots, and the genius of “Animal House.” Plus: a new support group.

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0:00.0	Privyo, this is a two-day program about politics.
0:05.0	The history national.
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0:10.0	global corruption, and a brodpies for democracy.
0:15.0	And now, and now,
0:18.0	with you,
0:20.0	your ambition, Gregorogne. Gregone. And now, with you, so I'm Raughey.
0:22.6	Reogon.
0:23.6	Gregon.
0:24.6	Regal
0:26.6	Welcome to a fight.
0:32.6	This time I know our side will win.
0:38.0	I'm Greg Oliar. This is Prevail. Welcome to the program. We've got a great show.
0:44.8	Rachel Slade is here. Rachel, of course, is the author of Into the Raging Sea, 33 Mariners,
0:51.6	One Megastorm, and the sinking of El Faro, which was a notable book of the year
0:57.4	by the New York Times Book Review and a New York Times bestseller. Also, just fantastic book.
1:03.9	She's got a new one coming out in November. It's called Making It in America, the almost
1:09.4	impossible quest to manufacture in the USA and how it got that way.
1:14.6	She's been working on this for a long time.
1:16.5	I talked to her privately about it like a year ago, and I've been dying to talk to her about the book and get her back on the podcast to discuss what she'd been researching and writing about.
1:26.3	So this is a really fun, engaging conversation.
1:29.3	It's about manufacturing and kind of the history of manufacturing
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