Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
by Ben Hamper
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Author: Ben HamperEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1992-07-01
ISBN: 0446394009
Number of pages: 260
Publisher: Warner Books
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- ISBN13: 9780446394000
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
Book Review: Hamper writes good book. Yea Flint
Summary: 5 Stars
The book being reviewed Rivethead was written piecemeal by an automotive assembly line worker named Ben Hamper and put into print as a book in 1992 by Warner books. Before this, Rivethead grew as a collection of articles with copyrights in the years, 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1991.The articles appeared in print in The Michigan Voice, The Detroit Free Press,and Mother Jones.
Rivethead is the biographical work of an unlikely Author from the automotive boomtown of Flint, MI. This city is the once great Mecca of GM assembly factories. Hamper chronicles the rise, hopefulness and fall of his own career and parallels it to the city and corporation that dominate the lives of its denizens. Anyone interested in the reality of life inside of and surrounding a classic rustbelt factory town will enjoy this work written not by an outside observer but, one of its own, an author that was not just embedded but actually lived in the belly of the beast.
Hamper effectively ties together basic human conditioning and shows in his work why people toiled in the factories for generations. It's the "Golden handcuffs" syndrome as he shows. When he was a younger man Hamper did have thoughts and dreams of leaving Flint, but the lure of a steady paycheck with no advanced education was to great. A steady good paying job until death do you part. Cursed and blessed at the same time.
Hamper portrays himself consistently as a simple man, uncomfortable with the relative fame his work brought him. Rubbing shoulders and eventually collaborating with fellow Townie Michael Moore brought Hamper to an unfamiliar place. This was one of authoring for money and the industry of publishing introduced to him briefly. In Rivethead Hamper speaks of this secondary industry even though embracing of him, also not understanding that he needs to remain in the heart of darkness in order to develop his characters. This is not fiction. Hamper cannot create fiction. What Hamper does create in Rivethead is vivid scenery inside the stereotypical American assembly plant of the 1970s and 80s.
Summary of Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a no-holds-barred journey through the belly of the American industrial beast.Business Books
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