What is it Worth? An experiment in the value of domestic labor and skill
Event Details
Date
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Time
4-5 p.m.
Location
Elizabeth Holloway Schar Hall, 5th Floor, Nancy Nicholas Hall
Description
During her career in NYC’s garment industry, Libby O’Bryan witnessed many sewing jobs move overseas and was haunted by the potential extinction of skill in the US. For the past fifteen years, O’Bryan has operated Sew Co. – an industrial sewing factory in Asheville, NC with socially responsible and creative business practices – in an effort to preserve the skill of sewing in our domestic manufacturing economy.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-8815 or email bo.owen@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Reasonable effort will be made to support your request.