car industry

Content about workers' struggles in the auto industry.

Ford times time on the loo

This article from the Detroit news shows petty measures introduced by Ford managers recently to raise productivity. The memo about toilet time is included below.

A Study of the South African Automobile Assembly Industry - Franco Barchiesi

Counter-Planning on the Shop floor - Bill Watson

1968-1971: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers - A. Muhammad Ahmad

A short history of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers - a radical union of black auto workers…

The workers have to deal with their own reality and that transforms them

Based on his experience in auto factories, Glaberman discusses the contradictions of the union's…

Walter Reuther, "social unionist" - Martin Glaberman

Martin Glaberman's review of 'The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor'.

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.

Black cats, white cats, wildcats: Auto workers in Detroit, 1969

Introductory article and account of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and its activity in…

Detroit auto workers

Fragile prosperity? Fragile social peace? Notes on the US

Collective Action Notes analyse the changing face of work and resistance to work in the US in the…

The historiography of the mass worker - Steve Wright

Steve Wright's historical study of the development of the mass worker across the world and the effect it had on working class struggle.

FIAT Strike in “Hot Autumn” of '69 Turin, Italy.

Confronting the crisis of 'fordism': Italian debates around social transition - Steve Wright

Steve Wright's in-depth look at views of the Italian workerists on the working…

André Nedelec

Nedelec, André, 1926-2000

A short biography of French anarchist and factory militant André Nedelec.