Introduction:
Rivethead is an interesting and intriguing memoir by Ben Hamper where he tells of the boring and rather terrible life of an automotive plant worker at the Flint, Michigan General Motors assembly line. Here one can observe Hampton’s excellent tongue in cheek style which merges quite brilliantly with the realistic problems which a worker had to face in those days of huge industrial production where men and women were treated as mere numbers or cogs in a machine wheel. It is basically the life of a worker who is solely interested in doing his/her day job and bringing home that pay ...
