Live Chat With Adam Davidson

In "Making It in America," The Atlantic's much-talked-about January/February cover story, Adam Davidson writes about Standard Motor Products, a family-run manufacturer in Queens. The story of this plant -- and particularly of a 22-year-old assembly line worker named Maddie Parlier -- illustrates how important factories are for America's economy, and why their disappearance is making the jobs crisis so difficult to solve. 

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/01/live-chat-with-adam-davidson/251016/