car industry

In 1999, Lear Corporation closed its plant for seating manufacturing for Volvo PV in Bengtsfors, Dalsland. Volvo had owned the plant themselves up to 1992 when it was sold to Lear Seating.

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

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

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

Marty Glaberman discusses his many years of political experience as a factory worker, comrade of CLR James and, in later years, an academic.

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

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

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

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