Barack Obama returns to the screens in a documentary series produced by Netflix, the trailer of which was released this Thursday, April 27, in which the former president stages himself as an explorer of the American world of work.
“In this series, I speak to American workers in various sectors – from hospitality to technology or home care – to understand their work and their hopes for the future”
, explained the former Democratic president on Twitter.
In this series entitled
Working: what we do all day
(Working: this is what we do every day, Editor's note), Barack Obama examines the hot topics of the attractiveness of employment, the repercussions of the development of artificial intelligence or the quest for meaning at work, in an approach inspired by the book
Working
by Studs Terkel (1912-2008), a great figure on the American left.
Through the episodes, the former president, who left office in 2017, once again uses his talents as a narrator to
"explore(r) ways to find meaning at work, and to create a bond through experiences and difficulties”
, specifies Netflix on its site.
Broadcast in May
The series, broadcast by the American streaming giant, was produced by Concordia Studio and Higher Ground, a thriving production company founded by the Obama couple in 2018, which notably bought the distribution rights to the Oscar-winning documentary American
Factory
.
The documentary series will be broadcast from May 17 on the Netflix streaming platform.