
ON THE COVER:
America Knits, Swainsboro, Ga., is a modern cut-and-sew facility with a mission to revive “Made in America,” while working differently to attract a younger workforce. Co-owner Steve Hawkins and his wife Alejandra, pictured operating the company’s automated pocket setting machine, regularly work in the plant where employees are treated like family.
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