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Yet, to the extent that the main trend in the world automobile indus­try is toward lean-and-dual production, then the most likely sites of future autoworker labor unrest will be among the lower-tier workers in the sub­contracting system. Yet, in these sites, strong grievances do not go hand in hand…

The Japanese auto makers brought to these sites many of the organiza­tional practices of automobile production in Japan. These practices spread still further as U.S. and Western European automobile firms responded to the Japanese competitive threat by selectively emulating Japanese orga­nizational …

During a 1990 strike at the Hyundai Group, auto assembly-line workers described the following incidents:

"Only a small number of [Hyundai Motor] workers were blocking the road at first [in solidarity with striking Hyundai shipyard workers] ", said Roh Sang Soo, a young assembly line worker....…

For several decades following the CIO victories, three employer re­sponses - relocation of production (disinvestment in union strongholds), process innovations (mainly automation), and "political exchange" (the pro­motion of "responsible" unionism and the repression of "irresponsible" unionism) - p…

On December 30, 1936, workers occupied General Motors' Fisher Body Plants No. 1 and No. 2 in Flint, Michigan. By March 12, 1937, General Motors (GM; the United States' largest industrial corporation with vast financial resources and a network of anti-union spies) was forced to capitulate and sign a…