#automative trade

[scotianostra]

On 2nd May 1963 The Rootes Car Factory opened at Linwood it went on to produce Scotland’s answer to the Mini.

The Hillman Imp enjoyed a brief moment in the sun. However, a mixture of poor management and industrial disputes resulted in a low quality product that was notorious for breaking down.

In 1987, The Proclaimers released Letter From America, a heart-felt lament to the countless industries and communities lost to Scotland in recent generations, Linwood amongst the places mentioned.

Compact models were very much in vogue after the 1956 Suez Crisis, and the Hillman Imp, while never able to match the Mini, sold relatively well - especially in Scotland, where buyers were imbued by the knowledge that it was the first car to be built here in 35 years.

With an 875cc rear-mounted engine tilted at an accessible 45 degree angle, the wee motor could reach 0 to 50 in just under 15 seconds and boasted top speeds approaching 80 miles per hour. Popular variants included the Sunbeam Stiletto, the Californian, the esate-sized Hillman Husky, and the most exquisite of all, the Singer Chamois. Hillman Imps were even favoured by Dunbartonshire Police, who first adopted the car in 1967.

The car was also celebrated for its cutting-edge design principles and quirky features. There were fold-back seats, indicators, stalk controls for the windscreen wipers and the rear window opened. Above all, though, with a launch price of £500, the Imp represented great value for money - or so it first appeared. Thanks to a host of internal design flaws, which included an inadequate cooling system, poor steering, gearbox and clutch problems, faulty chokes and a tendency to leak water, the Hillman Imp developed a reputation for unreliability. Break-downs became a common occurrence for Imp owners, with the car’s main saving grace being that it was generally easy to fix, provided you knew what you were doing.

The Hillman Imp also tasted some success as a racing and rally car. In 1964, a 998cc version of the Imp won the Tulip Rally, while other variants would go on to dominate the British Saloon Car Championships in the early 1970s. In June 1965, racing driver Alan Fraser drove an Imp on the circuit for the first time, with the car making an instant impact. Fraser Imps, with the Saltire painted on to their roofs, became famous throughout the motorsport world and the iconic vehicles still compete in vintage races to this day.

Despite its shortcomings - and there were several - the Hillman Imp would go on to become the most successful car model to ever come out of Scotland. In total, almost half a million cars left the Linwood assembly line, but it wasn’t enough to prevent Rootes from going to the wall. The firm was taken over by Chrysler, with the Imp ceasing production in 1976. Peugeot-Citreon eventually purchased the factory before it closed too in 1981. And with that, car production in Scotland came to an end for good.

An estimated 11,000 people were once directly or indirectly employed due to Linwood and the Hillman Imp and like every iconic car they have their own web page, you can check it out here https://www.imps4ever.info/linwood/linwood.html

[racefortheironthrone]

If management finds a way to automate jobs during a strike, is that scabbing?

Peripherally.

The automation itself is more part of the general category of management strategies to restructure workflow and production methods in order to reduce the need for, and thus the power of, labor. This dates back to the origins of Taylorism itself in the 1890s as an effort to “steal the brains from underneath the cap of labor” and through to the emergence of Human Relations and Industrial Psychology in the early 20th century as a means to better control workers. So I think you could see in as essentially equivalent to classic speed-up and stretch-out efforts to maintain production at as low a cost as possible during a strike, and thus break the union.

However, the dirty truth of automation is that there is no clean way to fully substitute machinery for labor. Due to the inherent limitations of technology at any stage of development, you need labor to repair and maintain and monitor automated systems, you need labor to install and operate the machines, you need labor to design and program and manufacture the machines. (This is one reason why the job-killing predictions around automation often fall flat, because the supposedly superior new technology often requires a significant increase in human labor to service the new technology when it breaks. For example, this is why automation in fast food has proven to be so difficult and partial than expected: it turns out that self-checkout machines are actually very expensive to operate in terms of skilled manpower.) And to the extent that a given automation contract or project is being undertaken during a strike in order to break that strike, that’s absolutely scabbing.

[fuckyou-saidtheraven]

*rattles the bars of my cage*

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[sojournertales]

“For decades, sci-fi authors and self-described "futurists" predicted that automation would put tradesmen out of work. After all, couldn't a machine easily do the job of someone without a college degree? (smug smug, smarm smarm)

Welllllp...it turns out that making robots capable of performing menial tasks in anything but a controlled environment is a huge engineering challenge. Every little thing that even an untrained, uneducated person can do has to be taught to the machine.

You want a robot that can clean hotel rooms and perform building maintenance? You have to give it the ability to detect everything in its environment, discern one object from another, and manipulate those objects on its own.

That's really, really hard. It's a lot of effort and technology to get a machine to do something a person can learn to do in a moments. Even when the tech hurdle is eventually overcome, other factors will still determine whether or not it's cost-effective or efficient.

Meanwhile, you know what machines excel at? Number-crunching, tracking metrics, and organizing data.

I predict that before truck drivers, welders, plumbers, and housekeepers have their livelihoods threatened, the machines will come for a big chunk of the corporate workforce. If you have a bullshit email job, you might end up getting automated into unemployment.

At the moment, the skilled trades (plumbers, electricians, construction, roofing, welding, etc.) are in no danger of being replaced by robots. They can't even be outsourced overseas because you have to be physically present to do those jobs. The coders will be replaced before the custodians are.

So, learn to custode, I guess.”

[larrywilmore]

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[allaboutforexworld]

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[cicerobussytransplant]

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[bharuwasolutions]

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[allaboutforexworld]

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[danielmax]

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