When the high road isn't enough: North Carolina's hosiery industry has it all: technology, training and employer-worker partnerships. But because of lax--and often unenforced--trade laws, it still may lose out to cheap foreign labor.
American Prospect, The, January, 2004 by McGarvey, Ayelish
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DAN ST. LOUIS MAY NEVER GRACE THE COVER OF Business Week magazine or dash off to board meetings in a Gulfstream jet. He works in a cramped, windowless office in a former Nickel's department store that is now home to a branch of Catawba Valley Community College in Hickory, N.C. But he is a man on a mission to save an entire industry. Specifically, socks.
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For many of Hickory's residents, the hosiery industry has provided good hourly wages--today, $12 or more--as well as health insurance, paid vacations and retirement benefits for three generations of workers. Nestled in the ...
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