car industry

Content about workers' struggles in the auto industry.

After the Wildcat: Another Report by Honda HMSI Worker

Detailed additional information, including participants' reports about the wildcat strike of Honda workers in Gurgaon, India in December 2010.

From Supply-Chains to Radical-Chains: Reports from Automobile Workers

While workers in the global north are with their backs to the wall of crisis – see current dispute at FIAT Mirafiori – the automobile workers in the global south suffer for a pathetic ‘boom’.

Piazza Statuto riot

Organized spontaniety: class struggle, workers autonomy and soviets in Italy - Gigi Roggero

Gigi Roggero on the Italian operaismo and the movements of the 60s and 70s.

Sabotage in Fiat Tychy

300 cars were damaged last night by ticked off workers in Poland's Fiat plant.

Nissan Motors: New Developments

Father of Cybernetics Norbert Wiener's Letter to UAW President Walter Reuther

1949 letter from a leading scientist to the head of the American auto workers union warning him about new technology and the negative impact it would have on manufacturing workers.

Chapter 3: Industrial relations nightmare — Courses of action

Made in Dagenham, directed by Nigel Cole

Its producers claimed inspiration from resistance to injustice, but this film’s sentimental spin is fundamentally flawed.

The tragedy of Fiat: new contract, longer hours, shorter breaks

On January 13th and 14th, over 5,000 Fiat workers at Turin's main factory vote on a new contract…

Dying from the inside: The decline of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers

A key account of the organizational issues of the LRBW, by Ernie Allen. From the book, They Should…

Wildcat Strike at Honda HMSI in Gurgaon, Manesar

A report of a wildcat strike at Honda in Gurgaon, India in December 2010.

Chinese Honda workers strike

Auto industry strikes in China - Lance Carter

Lance Carter gives an account and analysis of the hugely successful wildcat strike wave at mostly Japanese-owned auto factories in China, 2010…