car industry

Content about workers' struggles in the auto industry.

Militant: Flint strikers occupation, 1937

1930-present: Labour unrest and the successive geographical restructuring of the world automobile industry - Beverly Silver

Beverly Silver traces the growth of workers power in the auto industry and the…

Update on the car industry, 2005

Short update on strike of lorry drivers which stopped production at FIAT plant in Melfi/Italy, a strike note from VW in Navarra/Spain and news on ‘revolutionary’ production relations between assembly plant and suppliers at DC in Toledo/USA.

General Motors workers assemble an engine

The American Worker - Paul Romano and Ria Stone

An extensive two-part article on factory workers in the US in 1947. In the first half, auto worker Phil Singer (using the pen name, Paul Romano)…

Victorious: Flint sitdown strikers in 1937

The US industrial workers’ movement

Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward analyse the movement of industrial workers and the role of the unions following the great depression, from…

Interview with VW 'Auto 5000' worker - Wildcat

Wildcat interview with an auto-worker from the 5000x5000 VolksWagen project, a post-Fordist work restructuring experiment.

DaimlerChrysler Strike in Germany - Wildcat

This is a report of the Daimler Chrysler workers' response to the company attempts to extend the work time and cut pay. There were struggles across Germany, including spontaneous road blocking. The focus of the bosses threats, and the most militant workers struggles were the Sindelfingen Factory and in Untertuerkheim, near Stuttgart. The Untertuerkheim Factory has various other sites attached to it, such as…

Reports on crisis 4: England - Wildcat

Wildcat asked people in several countries to write down observations about social effects of the crisis. The following is a report from England,…

Patriotic? Auto workers supporting World War II

Wildcat! The wartime strike wave in the auto industry - Ed Jennings

Ed Jennings' account of the widespread movement of wildcat strikes in the United States auto…

Sud Aviation workers occupation, 1968

General Strike: France 1968 - A factory by factory account

Andre Hoyles analyses the development, organisation and end of the mass strike in France, 1968, with…

Fiat workers strike in the hot autumn of 1969

Organising at Fiat, 1969

The speech of a worker from the Fiat Mirafiori plant outlining workers' organising efforts and lessons they had learned in the militant struggles…

Vega assembly line at Lordstown, 1972

In the heart of the heart of the country: The strike at Lordstown - Peter Herman

A detailed historical account and analysis of the dispute at the General Motors Lordstown plant in…

Alfa Romeo Arese plant strike assembly, 1960s/70s

Against the state as boss - Autonomous Assembly of Alfa Romeo

A fascinating and detailed first person account of workers struggles at Italian state-owned auto…