car industry
News and articles about work, policy and workers' struggles in manufacturing, research and development, mining and materials around the world.
Black Cats, White Cats, Wildcats: Auto Workers in Detroit, 1969
Introductory article and account of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and its activity in a Detroit in the 1960s and 70s.
Fragile prosperity? Fragile social peace? Notes on the US
Collective Action Notes analyse the changing face of work and resistance to work in the US in the latter half of the 20th century, focusing in particular on the auto industry and prison labour.
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world"
- Schopenhauer in "Studies In Pessimism"
The historiography of the mass worker - Steve Wright
Steve Wright's historical study of the development of the mass worker across the world and the effect it had on working class struggle.
This article by Steve Wright appeared in The Commoner, No.5, in 2002. It is also reproduced here in its original pdf format (100kb).
The Historiography of the Mass Worker
(Chapter 8 of Storming Heaven: Class composition and struggle in Italian autonomist marxism)
Confronting the crisis of 'fordism': Italian debates around social transition - Steve Wright
Steve Wright's in-depth look at views of the Italian workerists on the working class response to Fordism and its effects on class composition.
[First published in 'Reconstruction' #6 (Summer 1995/96)]
Nedelec, André, 1926-2000
A short biography of French anarchist and factory militant André Nedelec.
André Nedelec
Born 1926 - France, died 15 October 2000 - France
André ‘Dede’ Nedelec died on 15th October 2000 just before his 75th birthday, after long years of suffering from a crippling illness. Up to the end he maintained a lively intellect and a continuing interest in the libertarian movement.
Khanifar, Gerard Ali, 1950-1997
A short biography of French anarchist and Michelin worker Gerard Ali Khanifar.
This French comrade of Arab origin has died on 21 February 1997. Born on 10 August 1950 he went to the schools organised by Michelin for their workers.
