Assembly Line
Assembly Line
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Presents firsthand accounts of the numbing experience of industrial work by Robert Linhart, one of the militant leftist intellectuals of 1968 France. Translated by Margaret Crosland.
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Assembly Line by Robert Linhart
Firsthand accounts of the numbing experience of industrial work by Robert Linhart, one of the militant leftist intellectuals of 1968 France. Translated by Margaret Crosland.
Linhart has written a gripping narrative of his nine months as a laborer at the Citroen auto works at ChoisyWith controlled rage, he conveys the pervasive sense of mindlessness attendant upon work in The Assembly Line. The strike he eventually comes to lead is short-lived, but his description of working conditions―descrimination against a variety of ethnic groups, the minutes 'stolen' or unpaid by management, the fear instilled by overweening bosses, the nausea, heat and hazardous chemicals―reads like something out of Dickens or Friedrich Engels. . . . This book is unmatched on this side of the Atlantic as an account of the tyranny of mass production and its effects in terms of human submission. Strongly recommended." ―Choice
Robert Linhart was a militant leftist intellectual in 1968 France.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780870233227 |
| ISBN 10 | 087023322X |
| Title | Assembly Line |
| Author | Robert Linhart |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Massachusetts Press |
| Year published | 1981-08-30 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |