‘American Factory’: Obamas’ fly-on-the-wall documentary at Ohio plant addresses challenges of intercultural working environments

'American Factory': Obamas' fly-on-the-wall documentary at Ohio plant addresses challenges of intercultural working environments

On December 23, 2008, a General Motors factory in Dayton Ohio shut shop, rendering thousands of workers unemployed. As the freshly laid-off workers struggled to get employment in the aftermath, a Chinese billionaire brought hope to the town in the form of Fuyao Glass.

The same factory was reopened in 2010 as an automative glass manufacturing factory with Founder and CEO of Fuyao, Chairman Cao Dewang, employing 2,000 of the former GM workers and integrating 300 Chinese workers as supervisors.

Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Grounds Productions’ first venture ‘American Factory’ is an impactful fly-on-the-wall documentary, which begins with a sense […]

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