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- American Ground Transport
A Proposal for Restructuring the Automobile, Bus and Rail Industries
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Automotive Industries Association of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Big Three Auto Contracts: Lowlights of 2011
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
By the end of October, autoworkers at the Big Three will have approved their 2011-2015 contracts. Since Ford was the most profitable corporation, and one that had avoided bankruptcy, it was the logical corporation for the UAW to target. During the economic crisis Ford workers voted down a round of concessions that would have suspended their right to strike until 2015, so by bargaining first at Ford the union could have maximized its potential power to put an end to the concessions.
- Canada Science and Technology Museum and Canada Agriculture Museum
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Car Care Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The City and Radical Social Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
A collection of essays dealing with the dynamics of the new forces for social change in our urban milieu, discussing how new ideas are contributing to an urban insurgency which could lead to a new city and a new concept of citizenship.
- Common Sense for Hard Times
The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- The Fight for Canada
Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
In an effort to realize their grand dream of one nation from Panama to the Arctic, Americans have attempted to conquer Canada using war, trade sanctions, and political interventions of all kinds. "That fight for Canada continues to this day," says David Orchard.
- The Flint sit-down strike, 1936-1937
Jeremy Brecher
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
210,000 auto workers joined the American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.) to take part in the strike but the A.F.L leadership however wanted no part in a strike, and managed to postpone it again and again. The workers won control over the rate of production, despite a union contract that conceded this authority to management.
- The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Stromberg provides a historical overview of how jaywalking was pushed to become a crime by automotive companies in order to normalize the reign of automobiles over pedestrians in the streets.
- Martin and Jessie Glaberman Collection
Papers, 1939-2001
Resource Type: Unclassified
The papers of the Marxist radicals Martin Glaberman and Jessie Glaberman, now housed at Wayne State University.
- GM Closures -- What's Next?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Plant closures by GM in the US, Canada and internationally threaten workers and communities. Can unions fight to stop this destructive practice?
- Monopoly Capital
An essay on American economic and social order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An analysis of American capitalism.
- The Newsletter #4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
- Our Generation
Volume 9 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Silent Surrender
The multinational corporation in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Levitt examines the historical background of foreign investment in Canada, its acceleration since the Second World War, and the nature of the intrusion into a sovereign state of the multinational corporation. she argues that recolonization by U.S. international corporations is rapidly transforming Canada into the world's richest under-developed country.
- Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
- The Struggle at Peugeot in France
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
When the management of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group announced, in early July 2012, that it was eliminating 8,000 jobs and closing the Aulnay plant near Paris (3,000 employees) in 2014, it caused a shock wave, well beyond the workers in the automotive sector.
- Time to Jail Auto Executives?
Still Unsafe at Any Speed
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Rather than allowing automobile industry debacles to float by without inspiring systemic change that will save lives, criminal prosecutions should become an integral part of -- even a priority for -- both federal and state governments.
- What Happened to the Streetcars?
Killed by General Motors
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The history of how car companies bought up and destroyed public transit systems in the first half the the twentieth century to eliminate alternatives to the automobile.
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