Manufacturing

An emerging grassroots style of making things that's about craftsmanship, tinkering and innovation.

Middle-skill jobs can support middle-class lives, but our education system isn’t getting people ready for them.

Satya Nadella is Microsoft's new chief executive. We look back at Steve Ballmer's tenure as his successor takes over. And where have manufacturing jobs gone?

Manufacturing jobs have been inching up, but not to pre-recession levels. The economy has lost about two million factory jobs since the start of the recession.

With the price of natural gas so cheap, manufacturing is coming back to America.

A look at how the manufacturing industry is being affected by the gridlock in Washington.

Things may be better in Europe than we thought.

Milllions of textile workers still work in unsafe conditions four months after the Rana Plaza factory near Dhaka collapsed, causing 1,100 workers to lose their lives. There is much pressure for change, however.

First Solar, Inc., has branched out into planning and building large-scale solar power. That strategy has helped the American company rise above plummeting prices for solar panels.

Manufacturing activity grew last month to its highest level in two years. But is it producing jobs you can raise a family on?