''American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears'' is a 2021

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book by

Farah Stockman Farah Nisa Stockman (born May 21, 1974) is an American journalist who has worked for ''The Boston Globe'' and is currently employed by ''The New York Times''. In 2016, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Early life Stockman was bor ...

that focused on

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ball-bearing factory workers whose fate and jobs were uncertain following an announcement of the factory's closure. Stockman explored the overlay between

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workers,

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and 2016 Trump voters and how the economy, political decisions and eventually

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impacted their job security. The book went into further exploration of race, gender, and

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issues, and in the case of one employee, prior factory relocations that impacted his financial well-being. The book followed earlier writing by Stockman on this topic for the

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, who sent her to Indiana to cover the follow up to President Trump's tweet about future factory closures. Over the course of her writing, Stockman met a number of factory workers and ultimately chose to focus on three in ''American Made'':John Feltner, Raleigh (Wally) Hall, and Shannon Mulcahy. While the President's tweet did not stop the jobs from moving, both the tweet and the economic climate which helped pursue some blue collar workers to support Donald Trump's candidacy, had a significant impact on these factory workers.

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