Summary of Farah Stockman's American Made

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Get the Summary of Farah Stockman's American Made in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Rexnord factory had served as one of the economic engines for the surrounding community. When it closed, hundreds of people lost their jobs. What had life been like for Shannon, Wally, and John, before the plant shut down? And what became of them after the jobs moved to Mexico and Texas?

American Made is the story of a community struggling to reinvent itself. It is also a story about race, class, and American values, and how jobs serve as a bedrock of people’s lives and drive powerful social justice movements. This revealing book shines a light on a crucial political moment, when joblessness and anxiety about the future of work have made themselves heard at a national level. Most of all, American Made is a story about people: who we consider to be one of us and how the dignity of work lies at the heart of who we are.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638157373

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On election night, the author was at Wellesley College, Hillary Clinton’s alma mater, where she was giving a speech. She texted a colleague who was at the Javits Center in New York waiting for Hillary to give her victory speech.

#2

On election night, the author watched the returns come in and thought that perhaps her city, Cambridge, Massachusetts, had misjudged the mood of the country. Trump had been elected president, but it didn’t feel real.

#3

Shannon Mulcahy is a forty-two-year-old woman from Indiana who has worked at a Ford factory for seventeen years. She has a rare genetic disorder that affects her lungs, and she relies on her job at the factory to support her family.

#4

Shannon is a grandmother who has worked at the Ford plant in Michigan for the past three months. She is one of the only two women in the heat-treat department.

#5

Bob, the furnace maintenance man, came into the heat-treat lab on election day to brag about how Trump was winning. Bob had voted for the first time in his life earlier that day, hoping Trump would save the factory.

#6

Rexnord Industrial Maintenance was a major North Carolina employer, with over 1,000 workers. On election day, 2016, the factory’s most notable voter was Raleigh Wally Hall, Jr. , a black man in his 40s who lived at home with his parents and was known around the factory for his kind and generous nature.

#7

Wally was a Republican, and he voted for Donald Trump