Word: lordstown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week to reduce a mounting backlog of unsold Pintos and Mercury Bobcats, two of the smallest models Ford produces. At the same time, a bulging inventory of Chevrolet's sub-compact Vegas prompted General Motors Corp. to eliminate a second shift at its huge superautomated plant in Lordstown, Ohio...
This fear of arousing antagonism is echoed in Harrington's stand vis-a-vis the trade unions While indicating his wariness of "left-wing outside-agitator-inspired wildcats," he concedes that there are instances, for example in the Lordstown auto plants, of genuine rank-and-file worker disenchantment with union leadership and a real desire on the part of workers to participate in the organization of the work process. "And I supported that strike," Harrington says. "But we're in a tough position. It's the same thing in New York, where the civil servants crossed the teachers' picket lines...
...ALLYING DSOC with the Democratic Party and the trade unions, Harrington has severely hampered his flexibility; he can't capitalize on those opportunities, such as Lordstown, which offer the best hope of realizing the workers' autonomy in the factories for fear of alienating his friends in the union leadership. Such an action would pose a major threat to the union bosses whose main responsibility is the enforcement of the contract in return for certain material concessions from management...
...Blood is best when Rachel Scott is mad, and I get mad, too, when I think not only of the slaughter but of the suicides, of James Johnson who was massacred. He murdered himself, just like the terminal alcoholics in Hamtramck and the junkies on the line in Lordstown and the men who drive like hellfire out of company parking lots and snuff themselves out on their way home from work. These figurative suicides are as important as the murders, and have to be dealt with first. Otherwise things are never clear except in bright flashes of truth, when James...
...Side. On page after page, Wallenberg repeats the refrain that is his definition of progress: "It is better by far than what it replaces." Focusing on the sunny side of modern society, he minimizes the clouds by looking only at their silver linings. The General Motors assembly line at Lordstown, Ohio, may be boring and dehumanizing, but it uses fewer workers to turn out more cars than earlier plants, thereby freeing other workers for more interesting jobs. Thus, Wallenberg insists, "the significance of Lordstown is in who doesn't work there." Wilh a similar cavalier indifference that would hardly...