quote [ A billionaire factory owner versus a group of laborers trying to form a union, and you’re not going to take a political side? You can see from this how Obama’s idea of being morally elevated—taking the “higher ground”—actually means declining to take important moral stands even when the stakes are high and the justice of the situation is clear.

In American Factory, this means that the factory owner is given much more screen time than the union activists. We see his anguish, his laments. We do not get much background on the union organizers: how the campaign started, how many people are part of it, how they go about talking to other workers. Most of the time, the union campaign is a shadowy presence in the background, though we do see a few minutes of a rally and some workers singing “Solidarity Forever.” ]