manufacturing and materials
News and articles about work, policy and workers' struggles in manufacturing, research and development, mining and materials around the world.
A Review of Walter Reuther, Social Unionist
A Review of Walter Reuther, Social Unionist by Martin Glaberman
Nelson Lichtenstein, The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (New York: and Chicago: Basic Books, 1995), 575 pp., $35.00, cloth.
Interview with Martin Glaberman
Marty Glaberman discusses his many years of political experience as a factory worker, comrade of CLR James and, in later years, an academic.
Wildcats In The Appalachian Coal Fields -William Cleaver
A little blow-out don't hurt nothin'.
A coal miner ain't nobody until he goes on strike,
then everybody's looking at him.
Wildcats In The Appalachian Coal Fields
William Cleaver
1912: The Miners' Next Step
A document produced in 1912 by the South Wales Miners Federation, which was one of the high points of syndicalist organising in the UK.
Being a suggested scheme for the Reorganisation of the Federation.
Issued by the Unofficial Reform Committee, Tonypandy, 1912
The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin
Peter Kropotkin's "The Conquest of Bread", along with his "Fields Factories and Workshops" was the result of his extensive research into industrial and agricultural production; originally published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1906.
Whereas Marx's main contribution to economics was his analysis of the commodity relationship in Capital - capitalism rather than communism - Kropotkin assesses what would need to be done, and most importantly how, in a communist society.
Cassia, Salvatore, 1944-2002
A biography of Italian anarchist and electronics worker Salvatore Cassia.
Salvatore “Toto” Cassia was a Sicilian of Trapani, but born at Siena on 2nd February 1944 after his parents settled there for 2 years after leaving Tripoli.
Mowbray, Charles Wilfred, 185?-1910
A short biography of tailor Charles Mowbray, who was possibly the first anarchist-communist in Britain. He was active in London, Norwich and the US.
Charles Wilfred Mowbray
Born 1850s – Durham, UK, died December 1910 – Bridlington, UK
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.
