Analysis Of Ben Hampers's ' Tales From The Assembly '

Analysis Of Ben Hampers's ' Tales From The Assembly '

Introduction



Ben Hampers book Rivethead; Tales From The Assembly



Line is a gritty in your face account of a factory workers



struggles against his factory, his co–workers, and the time



clock. Hamper makes no apologies for any of his actions,



many of which were unorthodox or illegal. Instead he



justifies them in a way that makes the factory workers



strife apparent to those who have never set foot on an



assembly line and wouldn’t have the vaguest idea how much



blood, sweat and tears go into the products we take for



granted everyday.



Rivethead is an account of the entire life of Author



Ben Hamper, from his long family lineage of “shoprats” and



his catholic school upbringing to his numerous different



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When Henry Ford first developed the idea of the



assembly line he was heralded as one of the most forward



thinking men of his time, and without the assembly line we



would no doubt not be as powerful a nation as we are today.



The assembly line principle as it matured in industrial



society however, proved to destroy workers creativity and



stifle the very essence of human life. Growth and change.



On an assembly line workers are degraded to automatons,



performing the same tasks over and over and over. Day in day



out, without ever having any knowledge or input into any of



the other tasks related to completion of the project. This



monotony in the workplace spills over into the daily life of



many factory workers and affects how they live their life



outside of the factory after the whistle blows as much as it



does while they’re on the assembly line. This spillover was



observed by Hamper of his Grandfather. “Straight home from



work, dinner, the evening news and immediately into bed at



7:00 p.m. He arose each weekday at 3:30 a.m., fixed himself



some black coffee, turned on the kitchen radio, smoked a



handful of Lucky Strikes and waited to leave for work at a



quarter to five. This regimen never varied one iota in the



forty years he worked for GM” (Hamper pg.6). It is fairly



clear that the monotony of the assembly line has a way of



setting personal routines for it’s

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