Bringing Shoe Manufacturing Back To The United States Poses Challenges @mfgday #MFGDay19

Great piece from NPR.

For Douglas Clark, the darkest part of working for Nike in the 1980s was watching American shoe manufacturing “evaporate” in the Northeast in a mass exodus to Asia in pursuit of cheaper labor.

“As a true Yankee — and my father was a Colonial historian — you know, it was heartbreaking,” he said.

Clark would go on to a long career in footwear, at Converse, Reebok, Timberland, then his own line of shoes at New England Footwear. And there, he would devote eight years to one mission: creating a model to make shoemaking in America profitable again.

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