"The agony of Ford's is the agony of Britain," proclaimed the London Daily Mirror last week. British Ford's agony is acute. Its main plant, which sprawls across the dreary Dagenham mud flats east of London, has what may well be the world's worst labor record: it has been hit by crippling wildcat strikes at the chilling rate of more than one a week for the past five years. "The American owners of this mammoth motor concern," editorialized the usually pro-labor Mirror, "would be justified in writing Britain off as a base for...
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