Farewell to the Factory Free

Author: Ruth Milkman
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520206789

Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century

This study exposes the human side of the decline of the U. Download Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. . auto industry, tracing the experiences of two key groups of General Motors workers: those who took a cash buyout and left the factory, and those who remained and felt the effects of new technology and other workplace changes. Milkman's extensive interviews and surveys of workers from the Linden, New Jersey, GM plant reveal their profound hatred for the factory regime--a longstanding discontent made worse by the decline of the auto workers' union in the 1980s. One of the leading social historians of the auto industry, Ruth Milkman moves between changes in the wider industry and those in the Linden plant, bringing both a workers' perspective and a historical perspective to the study.
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