American Factory
In 2008, a General Motors factory closed in a suburb of Dayton, Ohio, leaving more than 2,000 employees without work. The plant, which had produced SUVs and trucks, would lay dormant for years, offering no indication that life—or jobs—would return.
Then entered China.
Six years after the closing of the GM plant, China-based manufacturing company Fuyao Glass Industry Group, under the leadership of founder and chairman Cao Dewang, purchased the barren factory and transformed it into an automotive glass production facility. The U.S. subsidiary of the Chinese company brought jobs and hope back to town, but not without controversy.
Such is the story told in American Factory, the award-winning Netflix documentary directed by Steven...
