Word: renault
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...automakers-Volvo and Saab-Scania-announced their decision to unite in a new company, to be called Volvo-Saab-Scania. By any measure, the triple-hyphenated outfit will be a giant: with sales of $5.8 billion, it will rank as Europe's fourth largest automaker (after Daimler-Benz, Renault and Volkswagen), turn out a line of vehicles ranging from compacts to huge Scania rigs, and employ nearly 104,000 workers...
Weil's resolve to share the material and psychological hardships of what she called society's "afflicted" led her, three years after receiving her teacher's certificate, to go through a year of factory work in an electrical shop and a Renault plant in Paris. Finding that she needed to train her body to operate like a machine to meet "piece-work" quotas, giving her neither time nor energy to think or reflect, Weil began to change all her notions about the chance of worker resistance and solidarity. She found that the oppressive conditions, instead of reinforcing her ideological belief...
...these workers are concentrated in the worst paid, most arduous and most hazardous jobs. As of 1972, migrant workers made up 10 per cent of the work force in industrial western Europe, and much larger proportions in specific industries. It is migrants who man the assembly lines at Renault and Volvo, who dig the tunnels underneath Geneva, who make asbestos in the Ruhr--jobs which native workers avoid as much as possible...
...France, BSN, a giant glass company, has a committee of 30 workers (representing 14,000) who meet once a month with management to discuss a broad range of subjects: more flexible working hours, altering certain retirement plans. At the Renault auto company, Mitbestimmung translates as "job enrichment": Renault workers select components and assemble them at their own pace, cutting one to two hours off the previous assembly time...
...American case might lead one to believe, in France, for instance, the example of 1789 proved alive enough in 1968 to inspire another generation clashing with a modern-day ancien regime. As they marched through the streets of Paris, the students of the Sorbonne and the workers of the Renault factory were confident that they acted in the tradition of the sans-culottes who sparked the overthrow of feudalism's decaying bulk. In Mexico, too, peasants and workers still hope for the fulfillment of the revolution that engulfed their nation over 50 years ago. In the streets of Mexico City...