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This page considers the labor side of the the automotive
industry, often ignore in works than concentrate on the
bits of shiny metal or iconic figures such as Henry Ford,
Walter Chrysler and William Morris.
It covers -
It
supplements discussion of the auto
industry and of work
elsewhere on this site.
work
Points of entry into the literature on industrial relations
include Anthony Carew's Walter Reuther (Manchester:
Manchester Uni Press 1993) and Nelson Lichtenstein's Walter
Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit (Urbana:
Uni of Illinois Press 1995), Harry Braverman's provocative
Labor & Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work
in the Twentieth Century (New York: Monthly Review
Press 1974), Kevin Boyle's The UAW and the Heyday
of American Liberalism, 1945-1968 (Ithaca: Cornell
Uni Press 1995) and Michael Burawoy's The Politics
of Production: Factory Regimes under Capitalism and Socialism
(London: Verso 1985).
Fordism
For early Fordism see David Hounshell's From the American
System to Mass Production, 1800-1932 (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins Uni Press 1984), Stephen Meyer's The
Five Dollar Day: Labor Management and Social Control in
the Ford Motor Company, 1908-1921 (Albany: State
Uni of New York Press 1981), Sidney Fine's Sit-down:
The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937 (Ann Arbor:
Uni of Michigan Press 1969) and Joyce Peterson's American
Automobile Workers, 1900-1930 (Albany: State Uni
of New York Press 1981).
labour in lean production
Insights for later periods are offered in On the Line:
Essays in the History of Auto Work (Urbana: Uni of
Illinois Press 1989) edited by Nelson Lichtenstein &
Stephen Meyer, Rick Delbridge's Life on the Line in
Contemporary Manufacturing: the Workplace Experience of
Lean Production and the 'Japanese' Model (Oxford:
Oxford Uni Press 1998), Ruth Milkman's Farewell to
the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century
(Berkeley: Uni of California Press 1997), Berggren's Alternative
to lean production: work organization in Swedish auto
industry (Ithaca: ILR Press 1992), After Lean
Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World
Auto Industry (Ithaca: Cornell Uni Press 1997) edited
by Kochan & Lansbury and the irreverent Rivethead:
Tales From the Assembly Line (New York: Warner Books
1991) by Ben Hamper.
minorities
Other aspects of power relations are highlighted in Nancy
Gabin's Feminism in the Labor Movement: Women Workers
and the United Auto Workers, 1935-1975 (Ithaca: Cornell
Uni Press 1990), Pamela Sugiman's Labour's Dilemma:
The Gender Politics of Auto Workers in Canada, 1937-1979
(Toronto: Uni of Toronto Press 1997) and Black Detroit
and the Rise of the UAW (Oxford: Oxford Uni Press
1981) by August Meier & Elliott Rudwick.
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