factories

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GM, for instance, is spending billions to upgrade factories that make lucrative pickups, SUVs and V8 engines.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

For decades, foreign carmakers brought technology and branding while local partners provided factories and a market.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

A cheaper robot worker would not solve all of those problems, but it fits neatly into Beijing’s broader answer: to make factories more automated, more productive and harder to displace.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

On the first day of class, professor Reiko Hillyer writes a quote from French philosopher Michel Foucault on the board: Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

From Slate • May 27, 2026

In Pittsburgh, the factories hummed with activity, and Negro men filed into work daily with their lunch buckets.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland