Barack Obama and his wife Michelle operate Higher Ground Productions (Chris Jackson/PA)
The production company launched by Barack and Michelle Obama has created a documentary charting US industrial decline.
American Factory will stream on Netflix and explores Chinese investment in the US.
The documentary was backed by the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions.
It follows the 2008 closure of the General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio, which left swathes of workers unemployed.
The manufacturing site was then taken over by the US wing of the Chinese company Fuyao Glass.
Optimism over new employment in the community gave way to friction between workers and management, with staff seeking to unionise.
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