A Year in the Life of a Factory
Maynard Seider(Author)
CHARLES KERR (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-88286-229-3 (ISBN)
Description
In 1973, out of work university graduate Maynard Seider took the only job he could get in San Francisco at the time, at a factory. Here's an account of his year of factory toil - and of his workmates, management, rebellion, the union, and a whole lot more. I learned more about worklife from this account of a run-of-the-mill year and run-of-the-mill strike, than from a hundred stories of historic labor struggles. Seider shows that those nameless and faceless factories that litter the view from freeways in every American city are battlegrounds where a war is fought at a low, low heat, but fought daily. [Joan Holden, playwright, San Francisco Mime Troupe] Seider has a wonderful ability to portray the intimate details of workgroups and the interplay of personality and power in the world of work. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to know about what it's like to work in a factory today or to introduce students to the realities of American industrial life. [Jeremy Brecher].
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
ISBN-13
978-0-88286-229-3 (9780882862293)
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