Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
A memoir of life on a car assembly line. Ben Hamper takes the reader into the world of the shoprats and rivetheads, nicknames for people who work building cars. The author aims to give an insight into the largely forgotten people at the heart of any industrial nation.
A memoir of life on a car assembly line. Ben Hamper takes the reader into the world of the shoprats and rivetheads, nicknames for people who work building cars. The author aims to give an insight into the largely forgotten people at the heart of any industrial nation.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780446515016 (0446515019)
Publish date: December 14th 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 234
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Literature,
American,
Business,
Journalism,
Labor
Given the auto industry problems, this book, and the review I wrote several years ago are prescient.Hamper came from a long line of "shoprats." After a school career punctuated by brief moments of lucidity, during which he wrote passable poetry and showed some promise as a writer, he found himself s...
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