Elizabeth Faue is professor of history and department chair at Wayne State University, where she has taught labor history for 30 years. She is the author, most recently, of Rethinking the American Labor Movement (2017). As the daughter and granddaughter of unionists, she has given priority to the telling of working-class stories.
Documentary Can Reflect the Complexities of Working-Class Life
Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert’s American Factory shows “how workers and managers inhabit a world of fragmentation, in which there is no single working-class tale nor even a unified story among those who manage and own the factory.” Historian Elizabeth Faue on how documentaries can tell complicated stories of working-class life.