There’s a moment early in Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987), Christine Choy’s documentary about the murder of Chinese-American Vincent Chin by two white Detroit auto workers, in which several auto workers sit around a bar and talk candidly about their jobs being outsourced to Asia. They may be losing their jobs but at least, they contend, it is because there exists in America, unlike in Asian countries, a just and immutable right to good treatment and fair wages, and that would never change. More than thirty years later, American Factory documents the arrival of Chinese Fuyao Glass America (Fga), a Chinese-based automotive glassmaking company, into a disused Gm plant just outside of Dayton, Ohio. American Factory marks a return for directors Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar to the same plant they filmed for The Closing of a Gm Plant (2008), except the tables have turned: American workers now work for...
- 8/26/2019
- MUBI
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