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 AdventureDog
     
Location: Detroit, MI
Gender: Male
 |  | After the Factory
< on 1/6/2012 10:45 PM >
|  | | | "The global economy is in crisis. More and more businesses are outsourcing their manufacturing. And former industrial towns– whether they’re in Ohio, Mississippi, or Poland– are left asking the question, ‘What comes after the factory?’ For questions like this, the best answers come from the people who have been there.
Detroit, Michigan has been running on fumes since the fall of the auto industry and Poland’s textile industry in Lodz has been hanging by a thread since the fall of communism. In both cities, their populations have fled, their unemployment has spiked, and now, they’re both knee-deep in the pressures of re-building their economies.
After the Factory presents an opportunity to learn from these two diametrically different cultures as their entire way of life transitions to something new. Stories from the citizens are inspiring. Ideas from community leaders are thought-provoking. Free-thinking entrepreneurs are putting a new spin on traditional concepts of growth.
Change is inevitable. And as the people in each city propel Detroit and Lodz into the future, this trans-continental dialogue allows the global community to see how these fallen giants, troubled as they are, just might be the innovators writing the new rulebook for next generation cities."
http://afterthefactoryfilm.com/trailer/
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Samurai
   
Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | Re: After the Factory
<Reply # 2 on 1/7/2012 3:36 PM >
| | | | Posted by shotgun mario
let it collapse. Those of us with skills will get on fine, while all the middle managers and wanna-be executives will be devoured through their own inabilities to be productive in a a tangible 'work' context.
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this is of particular interest as I work at a mill in an industry that is on the skids.
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fiftyone_eggs
Location: jerzey
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: After the Factory
<Reply # 3 on 1/7/2012 4:38 PM >
| | | | Nice! I will def keep my eyes on that. I hope a screening makes its way closer to me.
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MKE_MFGng
Location: The Cream City; Mill-Town; Beer Capital, USA; Milwaukee
Gender: Male
| | Re: After the Factory
<Reply # 4 on 1/10/2012 5:21 AM >
| | | | Absolutely agree with Shotgun_Mario, one of the things that really upset me with Obama was how he handled the big three 'bailout.' If Detroit is really who they say it is, this is the time to prove the point. There may be some remnants of true innovation, manufacturing, and efficiency left, but for the most part I think these people have left old manufacturing cities for new ones (as sad as it makes me to say that). I'm not sure how Detroit is (I think it's doing worse than Milwaukee), but Milwaukee may still have some hope left in manufacturing as many companies in the Milwaukee Area are still doing well (though the giant manufacturers have effectively 'moved' to China (or other cheap manual labor regions)).
Dude's got the knack! |
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