Workers and revolutionaries : the breakdown of industrial relations in the plants of Detroit and Turin, 1947-1973

Workers and revolutionaries : the breakdown of industrial relations in the plants of Detroit and Turin, 1947-1973

This thesis examines in a comparative perspective shop floor politics and workers' struggles in the automobile industry of Detroit and Turin. Detroit and Turin offer a lens into the dynamics of what Fredric Jameson has called "high" modernism, a period in which Fordist and Keneysian t...

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Main Author:	Pizzolato, Nicola
Published:	University College London (University of London) 2003
Subjects:	331.04292220977434
Online Access:	http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408052

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