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A 3 page overview of the life of a fourth generation production line worker in Flint Michigan in the 1970s and 1980s. The author outlines the impact the United Autoworkers Union (UAW) had on Hamper and his fellow workers. No additional sources are listed.
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Flint Michigan is a thriving industrial center. The city skyline is characterized by the protrusion of one massive factory after another, all forming a conglomerate of industrialization.
Within that conglomerate is the General Motors assembly plant and inside that plant are the thousands of employees whose working lives are spent hammering together the contrivances that we
call automobiles. Not much has changed through the years as far as the overall picture of what goes on inside the General Motors plants. Although vehicle designs have
changed and the technology that is used to produce them has made leaps and bounds, little has changed in regard to the lives of the workers whose income is derived
through their employment at GM. Many of these workers are, in fact, the result of several generations of ancestors who were also employed by the plant. In the 1970s
and 1980s one of these workers was Ben Hamper. Ben Hamper was a fourth generation employee of the auto manufacturing industry. Not
only had his father, an uncle, and grandfather been a Flint "shoprat"; so had his great grandfather! Hamper was characteristic of the majority of the workers at GM during
this time period in that his life at GM was not the best in terms of the conditions that he was forced to endure. Despite those conditions, despite the
subjugating management policies and the arrogant and incompetent supervision that he endured at GM, Hamper developed a love/hate relationship with the plant. He formed an emotional attachment that, in
reality, was more deleterious than rewarding. As an outlet he drank obsessively and even used drugs. Hamper even ultimately developed significant psychological problems, problems including panic disorder, that
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