American Made

Farah Stockman – who won the Pulitzer Prize as a Boston Globe reporter in 2016 and joined The New York Times editorial board in 2020 – tracked the final days of the Link-Belt manufacturing plant in Indianapolis. Its workers were committed to being union members, though many were politically right leaning voters. Who are these workers and how did they cope after the factory shut down?

The Link-Belt Factory

Stockman centers her book around the Link-Belt factory, owned by Rexnord, which began manufacturing world-class steel bearings in Indianapolis in 1959 and employed generations of local workers until it closed in November 2017.