Word: lordstown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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National Airlines, the nation's tenth largest carrier, canceled all of its flights after the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers walked out July 15. In Lordstown, Ohio, production of Chevrolet Vegas was halted when a United Auto Workers' unit struck, and in Midland, Mich., a United Steelworkers' unit reached a tentative settlement of an 18-week work stoppage against Dow Chemical...
...some substance the problem of humanizing technology runs deeper than the universal enforcement of General Education requirements. Besides, it's still not clear to me how anyone's simply understanding the Second Law of Thermodynamics would relieve the devastation of a life riveted to the assembly line at Lordstown...
...spent the past three years interviewing Americans about their jobs. He began in Chicago, where he is the host of a daily radio program. There he interviewed an aging waitress, a receptionist, a barber. In Indiana, he talked with a strip miner. In Kentucky, a farmer. In Lordstown, Ohio, a union leader at the General Motors assembly plant...
...want to do what I want to do, what I like to do." Well, that caught on in a way [laughs]--strangely enough. And so you got the young auto workers--young auto workers--absent on Mondays or Fridays: "Fuck it, doing all that stuff!" And of course, Lordstown is the great example. And the older guys, their fathers, the Depression people, said, "You got to," 'cause they never question. So they started thinking, as they're about to retire, "That's shit I've been doing all my life...
...more than five years, blue-and-white-jacketed reports written or sponsored by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education have been emerging from its Berkeley, Calif., offices with the seeming regularity of Vegas coming off the line at Lordstown. Originally set up by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to examine the financing of higher education, the commission's task quickly broadened. Its 104 reports, running in size from a 978-page statistical survey to slim booklets of less than 40 pages, have probed such diverse facets as student dissent and dental education. Last week, with...