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

by Ruth Milkman

Book Overview

This study exposes the human side of the decline of the U.S. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520206789
• ISBN13: 9780520206786
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"