The Obamas' new Netflix documentary takes aim at Trump’s promises to reinvigorate the industrial heartland
And when the jobs do come, they don’t look the same as they once did. “American Factory,” set smack in the middle of the industrial heartland, resets expectations about what it means to be a blue-collar middle-class worker in the United Sates.
A chunk of the movie focuses on the U.S.-China culture clash that sets in as Chinese workers arrive to work in the plant and as as Chinese workers line up for the start of their shifts as if they were participating in a military drill. One evening, the Americans attend a New Year’s company event that is a strange mixture of corporate pride and patriotism, in which performers sing of “waste eliminated and revenues generated,” and a half dozen couples appear on stage to be married. The American supervisors are amazed.
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