Crowley County Combined Library

Manufacturing includes many different areas of hands-on work. Jobs in the manufacturing industry give workers the opportunity to work as part of a team building a product or developing new technology. Manufacturing occupations encourage innovation and can provide variety in a day's work. If you want a job inside that does not confine you to a desk, then manufacturing could be the right career for you!

Explores the world of the millions of female Chinese migrant workers who have left their homes in rural towns to find jobs in China's cities, as revealed through a two-year study of the lives of two young women.

"In the past, the thought of working in manufacturing might have conjured up images of standing in front of a conveyer belt. Today, manufacturing jobs are far more challenging--and more rewarding, too! Technology has brought about progress in virtually every industry, and the manufacturing industry is no exception. Participation in collaborative, STEM-based work spaces known as makerspaces offers a great advantage to those interested in manufacturing....

Provides instructions for numerous projects for the house, yard, and garden, including birdhouses, cold frames, plant stands and tubs, window boxes, smokehouses, fences, outdoor furniture, and greenhouses.

"In 1947 Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio, the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass House, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown thirty-five years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion." The book describes how the Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware,...