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The Factory and the City
This work questions the relationship between corporate planning and local communities which must live with the consequences of corporate decisions. Based on a case study of the partial closure of the Rover Group's plant at Cowley (part of whose work is to be transferred to Honda's new, non-union plant on a greenfield site at Swindon), the authors show how corporations take decisions based on private profitability which override the interests of workers and the community.
American Automobile Workers, 1900-1933
The book is a first-rate social history of automobile workers in the pre-union era. I wish that I had written it. Stephen Meyer, University of Wisconsin-Parkside This book is a comprehensive history of automobile workers in the pre-union era. It covers changes in the kinds of workers who staffed the auto factories, developments in the labor process and in overall conditions of work, daily life outside the factories, informal responses of workers to routinized, monotonous, and highly structured work, and automobile worker unions before the creation of the United Automobile Workers. Although the 1920s were seen at the time as a period of peaceful and cooperative labor relations, author ...
Autowork
An anthology of original essays on the history of work experience in automobile factories, from 1913 to the present.
"Exhibit 19"
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The Canadian Auto Workers
Preface Introduction Part One: Waiting 1. Making Cars, Remaking People 2.Searching for a New Deal Part Two: The Union Arrives 3. The Breakthrough 4. Recognition 5. Delivering the Goods Part Three: Normal Isn't Normal Anymore 6. The Other Sixties 7. The Candy Man's Gone Part Four: Towards a New Unionism 8. Breaking Away 9. The More Things Change, The More They ... Change Again 10. Building Is Everything Suggested Readings
The Company and the Union
Describes the complicated relationship between General Motors Corporation and the United Automobile Workers at the time of the 1970 UAW strike.
