Ford is offering manufacturing roles that can reach six figures, yet plants still struggle to attract and keep enough people to run the lines. The gap is not simply about pay, it reflects a deeper ...

“Early in the morning I feel a chill/The factory whistle blows loud and shrill” sang the late, great Warren Zevon in his 1987 song “The Factory.” Those lines nicely sum up the image of factory work — ...

Through boom times and, more recently, slumping sales, Nike Inc. has stuck by a key claim about its overseas suppliers: They pay the average factory worker about twice the local minimum wage. It’s a ...