Loose Bolts?

Duration: 35

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Peter Schlaifer

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Reports the frustration and anger that is experienced by assembly line workers at the General Motors Vega plant in Lordstown, Ohio. Uses videotaped interviews to measure workers' attitudes towards their jobs, their supervisors, and the plant generally. Suggests that neither organized labor nor plant management has addressed the problems of the assembly-line workers., Deals with work on assembly lines. Interviews employees at a General Motors automobile plant in order to show their reactions to this well-paid, but potentially dehumanizing type of work.

Complete Record: Reports the frustration and anger that is experienced by assembly line workers at the General Motors Vega plant in Lordstown, Ohio. Uses videotaped interviews to measure workers' attitudes towards their jobs, their supervisors, and the plant generally. Suggests that neither organized labor nor plant management has addressed the problems of the assembly-line workers., Deals with work on assembly lines. Interviews employees at a General Motors automobile plant in order to show their reactions to this well-paid, but potentially dehumanizing type of work. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.