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Detroit Model, The

• 1980 ----- color ----- 38 min ----- 16mm
• What role should workers and the public play in redesigning crisis-ridden U. S. industry? Probes Detroit's plans for the "world car," a small fuel efficient car made on the most highly automated machinery with parts produced in factories around the world. But autoworkers think that while the "world car" may save the auto companies, it will cost jobs as a result of imported parts and automation. The U.A.W.'s Region 1A Skilled Trades Council is shown formulating innovative programs so that this new computer technology does not de-skill and fragment the union's workers.
• Topics: (Automation, Industry, Labor Relations)

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