sabotage
CLODO Speaks
Interview with French saboteurs of a nuclear power project.
Sporadic acts of sabotage against companies involved in nuclear plant construction began to take place in the region of Toulouse, France in mid-1979. This occurred at the height of vigorous, broad-based regional opposition to the construction of the GOLFECH nuclear power plant on the Garonne River.
1889: The Glasgow dockers' go-slow
A brief history of the strike of Glasgow dockers in 1889 which was proving fruitless, until they returned to work and began a go-slow or "working ca'canny".
The Stopwatch and the Wooden Shoe: Scientific Management and the Industrial Workers of the World
Mike Davis on the introduction of Taylorist management techniques to break up workers solidarity, and the response of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union.
TAYLOR AND THE "ART OF SWEATING"[1]
Sabotage: The Ultimate Video Game
What office worker hasn't thought of dousing the keyboard of her word processor with a cup of steaming coffee, hurling her modular telephone handset through the plate glass window of her supervisor's cubicle, or torching up the stack of input forms waiting in her in-box with a "misplaced'' cigarette?
GIDGET GETS FIRED
(Introduction to: Sabotage: The Ultimate Video Game)
One year ago the Bank of America offered me a job as a Systems Analyst. Not being a moralist, I didn't feel that my anti- authoritarian principles would be overly compromised if I became an officer of one of the largest and most hated financial institutions in the world. Besides, once inside the belly of the beast I could pursue my other career--i.e.
Washing machines factory in Berlin closing down, 2005
As a large washing machine factory in Berlin closes down, Wildcat examine the history of the plant, and the manufacturing of household appliances in Germany as a whole.
“...the only thing they can expect from us...”
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: The Strike at Lordstown
A detailed historical account and analysis of the dispute at the General Motors Lordstown plant in the early 1970s, examining the largely self-organised workers' sabotage and the union-controlled strike.
By Peter Herman
Introduction
Libertarian socialism - Dave Lamb
Dave Lamb looks at socialism as the resistance of workers to work and bureaucracy.
Libertarian socialism has many different interpretations, but its primary meaning is found in opposition to a range of bureaucratic tendencies within a hierarchical society to seek ever increasing levels of control over work, social life, and personal relationships.
Sabotage - Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
An important historical text, published by the Industrial Workers of the World union outlining the nature and potential benefits of industrial sabotage.
The Interest in sabotage in the United States has developed lately on account of the cage of Frederic Sumner Boyd in the state of New- Jersey, as an aftermath of the Paterson strike. Before his arrest and conviction for advocating sabotage, little or nothing was known of this particular form of labor tactic in the United States.
Anatomy of an Industrial Struggle: Chrysler Factory at Tonsley Park in Adelaide 1976-1978
An account of two years of struggle at an Australian Chrysler plant by one of the workers, including a detailed look at the role of the union.
Introduction
This article by Garry Hill, a worker at the Tonsley Park Chrysler plant near Adelaide in Australia, describes a series of struggles in which he was actively involved.
