Autoworkers Under the Gun
Book description
In an industry under attack, a veteran autoworker offers his take on the collapse of the American dream.
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Greg Shotwell was a longtime worker at General Motors and activist in the United Auto Workers who was notorious among executives in both the company and union for his rank-and-file newsletter, Live Bait and Ammo. This book is a collection of articles from that newsletter, and it’s a bitingly funny and ultimately heartbreaking account of autoworkers’ losing fight to maintain the rights and living standards that had made the union famous.
Unlike the other books on my list, this book is the story of a defeat, but it is also a portrait of the generation of working-class fighters who kept…
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