New York —
The US has lost thousands of manufacturing jobs over the last year. Beverly Dawson’s family was among them.
Dawson was laid off this month at Whirlpool’s refrigerator factory in Amana, a small town in eastern Iowa. Her son’s offer to work full-time at the plant when he graduates from college in a few semesters was also pulled. Her husband was the only one to survive the latest round of layoffs.
At the Amana plant, the hope of a stable future building appliances in the town that introduced America’s first side-by-side refrigerator