Autoworkers Under the Gun ─ A Shop-Floor View of the End of the American Dream

This book by Gregg Shotwell, a rank and file auto worker and the author of the famous Live Bait & Ammo broadside widely distributed among auto workers on factory floors over the past decade, provides a worker's view of the decline of the American auto industry and the dismantling of hard won benefits by industry and corrupt and wayward United Auto Workers executives. Examining the collusion of union management with new industry plans for "streamlining" and "lean management" the volume documents the decline of real benefits for auto workers through a long line of concessions to company bosses. This work exhibits the best of grass roots labor thought and organizational principles and will be a "must read" for both students of labor history and workers concerned with maintaining the power of a unionized workforce. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)