Mollie’s Job: A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Line
By William M. Adler, NY: Scribner, 2000. HD6068 .2 U6 A33
One of the best books ever, explaining what happened to one company. I highly recommend the book to gain understanding of global capitalism.
This history of Universal Manufacturing Co., moving from Paterson, NJ to Mississippi to Mexico, is a history of “Free Trade,” as it affected one company and several individual workers. Mollie was the first woman to run a stamping machine, and become union steward in Paterson, and one of the last to loose her job. Her company goes from local to global; and the book is excellent as it explains what happens, and how, at each stage. Not only the workers, but management lose at each level.
… Sue Weiler