With production stoppages and reports of a lower volume of cars rolling off the Corvette factory line in Bowling Green, Kentucky, it’s no surprise to learn that GM has laid off some assembly workers.

The oldest GM plant still in operation builds heavy-duty versions of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. The entire ...

When I was a kid, my elementary school had a program that let students shadow adults at their job for a day. The idea was to show us what working as, say, an architect was like. “Japanese assembly ...