car industry

Content about workers' struggles in the auto industry.

National Guardsmen charge the picket line

The 1934 Toledo Auto Lite strike - Ted Selander

A speech given by participant Ted Selander on June 3, 1984 at an anniversary celebration of the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike.

Sergio Marchionne, FIAT CEO

5400 workers on redundancy payment at FIAT plant in Mirafiori, Turin

Sergio Marchionne has managed to set a new record in his activity as the CEO of FIAT: that is, to…

Militant: UK auto workers on strike

Forces of labor - Beverly J Silver

Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor…

Successful autoworker strike in Russia

Kaluga Benteler auto workers win strike in battle over wages, collective agreements and union recognition.

Detroit's Hudson Motor Car Company off Jefferson Ave.

Comparing Fordist cities: urban crisis and union response in Detroit 1915-45 and Turin 1950-75

Essay by Ted Perlmutter comparing the industrial cities of Detroit and Turin, their…

Charles Denby with Raya Dunayevskaya and Ethel Dunbar

Testimony of a black worker - Charles Denby

Extracts from Charles Denby's excellent autobiographical work, Indignant Heart - Testimony of a Black Worker. The extracts describe his…

The Corporation (Documentary)

The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary is…

Workers of the FIOM union are marching

Separate agreement leads to expulsion of FIOM from Fiat Italian factories

Thousands of FIAT workers will no longer be represented by FIOM, the main Italian union of…

Punching out: one year in a closing auto plant - Paul Clemens

In the aftermath of one of the oldest car factories in Detroit closing, Paul Clemens speaks to those…

Union shop billboard

The origins of the union shop - Tom Wetzel

Article about the practice and limitations of union (closed) shops in the US workers' movement in the 1930s and 40s. In particular it examines…

Students demonstrate in Milan, 1968

States of emergency: cultures of revolt in Italy from 1968 to 1978 - Robert Lumley

The complete text of the definitive book on the mass social movements in Italy in the 1960s and 70s…

Wartime strikes: The struggle against the no-strike pledge in the UAW during World War II - Martin Glaberman

Martin Glaberman's examination of American car industry workers wildcat strike wave…