Lordstown Strike Against GM Speedups Exposes New Worker Alienation
On March 3, 1972, workers at General Motors’ Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant authorized a 22-day strike after GM’s Assembly Division (GMAD)—which workers called “Get Mean And Destroy”—implemented brutal speedups that reduced task time to 35-second bursts with only 5-second …
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