car industry

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)…

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jeremy Brecher on the huge, often unofficial, strikes which swept the US during and after World War…

Three workers from FIAT Mirafiori in Italy describe the experiences of the Southern immigrant coming to work in the industrial cities of the…