Made in New Hampshire: Manufacturing's Rise and Fall in Manchester
A century ago, Manchester, New Hampshire was known for just one thing: the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. “Amoskeag at one time, at its peak, around World War I, was more than 17,000 employees,” says...
View ArticleThe Hard Economics of Making Plush Toys in New Hampshire
This week, NHPR is digging into New Hampshire’s manufacturing sector: what’s been lost, and what could be regained in the years ahead. Today, we’re going to look at how one company, a toy maker in...
View ArticleTrump, Trade, and New Hampshire Manufacturing
The factory floor inside of Graphicast, a manufacturing company in Jaffrey, feels like a throwback to another era. Workers stand around waist-high crucibles, plucking casts out of the pots filled with...
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