1. Introduction -- 2. Prisoners of Prosperity: Auto Workers in the Postwar Period -- 3. Adversarialism and Beyond: The UAW in Uncertain Times -- 4. Farewell to the Factory: The Buyout Experience -- 5. The "New Linden": Rhetoric and Reality -- App. 1. Selected Data on Linden-GM Production Workers, 1985 -- App. 2. Auto Workers' Hourly Earnings, 1958-1992 -- App. 3. A Note on Methodology
Summary
This study exposes the human side of the decline of the US auto industry, tracing the experience of two key groups of General Motors workers: those who took a cash buyout and left the factory, and those who remained and felt the effects of new technology and other workplace changes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-229) and index
