American Factory: Hyper-Exploitation, Lean Production and the Village People

It's time for another Double Feature!  This time we broke up the films into two separate episodes - and this is part 2. On this episode, we're watching Julia Reichart & Steve Bognar's Oscar winning documentary - American Factory (2019). We discuss the history of documentary sequels, Julia Reichart's Oscar speech, the parallel story structure, hyper-exploitation of workers, automation myths vs realities, Lean Production methods and how much fun it really is to stay at the Y.M.C.A. Don't forget to check out Part 1 of this Double Feature - our episode on Julia Reichert & Steven Bognar's Oscar nominated The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (2009).