Netflix’s American Factory is a fascinating look at the future of capitalism

Netflix's American Factory is a fascinating look at the future of capitalism

It is an all too familiar story, both here and in the US

A manufacturing plant goes out of business, due to advances in automation, and it being cheaper to have the product produced elsewhere in the world. Hundreds of working-class men and women lose their jobs, and a once-thriving community becomes critically wounded. Yet far from being the end of the story, this is where Netflix’s excellent new documentary American Factory begins. The film opens with the General Motors Moraine Assembly car factory in Dayton, Ohio, being shuttered in 2008. We then fast forward to 2015, when Chinese […]

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