Citation (IEEE): S. Bognar and J. Reichert, “American Factory,” Documentary film, Higher Ground Productions / Netflix, 2019.
What it argues
An Academy Award-winning documentary about a Chinese glass manufacturer reopening a shuttered General Motors plant near Dayton, Ohio. It portrays the clash between management and workers from two industrial cultures over pace, safety, hierarchy and unions, the pressures on workers who badly need the jobs, and the company’s eventual turn toward automation. It offers no simple verdict on either side.