Punching Out, 2nd ed.
Date
1973
Credits
- Martin Glaberman 2 Author
- Bewick/ed 4
Format
- Book 579
Type of Work
- Finished work 5123
Printers
Publishers
Techniques
Printed Pages
32
Locations Made
- Detroit 91
"Punching Out details Glaberman’s experiences of “wildcat strikes and union policing of the workforce during the heyday of the UAW in Detroit’s auto factories.” Glaberman writes,
Why does a working man or woman, chosen by his or her fellows to represent them, sooner or later turn against them? Why does a worker, when he is elected to union office, turn against his own kind? How does an ordinary rank and file worker become a pork-chopper, a pie-card, a bureaucrat?
The question isn’t a personal one. At one time or another it has been asked in every shop, in every city in the country. In auto plants, in steel mills, in coal mines, on ships in every port, the same question keeps coming up. It is a fundamental question. It is one of the most important questions facing working people today."
The Detroit Printing Co-op by Danielle Aubert.
