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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...
...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...
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...