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by B. Hamper (Author) "I WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD THE FIRST TIME I EVER SET FOOT inside an automobile factory ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 234 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Company (31 Dec 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0446394009
  • ISBN-13: 978-0446515016
  • ASIN: 0446515019
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 860,625 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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An irreverent look inside the world of American auto workers provides observations on the automotive industry, the factory, the employees, and life on and off the assembly line for blue-collar, working-class Americans.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT BOOK! Anyone you gives it less than 5 stars is nuts!, 11 April 1999
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This review is from: Rivethead (Paperback)
I was forced to read this book...against my better wishes, my hellish American History professor assigned this book to our class. As I read the title I remembered thinking: "how in the world is an assembly line job interesting enough to read about?" About the only thing I thought the book had going for it was the foreward by Michael Moore. It looked like I was going have to spend another weekend plodding though a boring book when I could have been spending it at the movies or out with my friends. It turned out to be one of the best weekends of my life. The books was hilarious -- It was real, gritty, sharp and wonderfully written. After reading the introduction, I was hooked: I locked myself in my room, unplugged the telephone and didn't put down the book until I was finished. That was ten minutes ago -- now I am online looking to see if he has written any other books...I was disapointed to see that he hasn't. Ben Hamper -- wherever you are -- I have joined the ranks as your loyal fan. Even though you no longer work for GM, I hope you will find another story out there and tell the world about it.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Bukowski with Comedy, 18 Aug 2003
By A. Reynolds "adrian_j_r" (Mexico) - See all my reviews
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Although Hamper's comedic effect is often too studied, almost affected, it still elicits a hearty bellylaugh - in a way that Bukowski has not.

Ben Hamper takes us on a journey into the industrial wastelands of blue-collar toil - beer, repetition, noise, grime, mental atrophy...all the things that have made the US in to the industrial giant it is. He writes with a casually sharpened observation that belies his eventual descent in to the maddened pit created by the demons of industrialization. Indeed, I was surprised by how this chronicle ends and the annals or work-related literature deserve a closure from Hamper, as the lastest recruit 'accepting the baton from crab claw to puppy paw'.

Ben Hamper has written about only one topic yet he has done it with greater panache than Bukowski's 'Post Office'.Like they say - 'It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it!'.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Required Reading, 9 Jan 2004
This review is from: Rivethead (Paperback)
I just bought Rivethead again, probably the fifth or sixth time. You never get it back when you lend it to people. Not only is this book hilarious and bitingly witty, it is a brilliant look at how work screws you up. I first read it when working in an industrial packaging factory, no where near as brutal as the rivetline at GM, but there's so much you can relate to. Anyone who's ever worked in a factory, anyone who wonders why ordinary Americans are as they are needs to, no MUST, read this book.
Better than anything Michael Moore has written, sorry that Ben Hamper is no longer writing.
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3.0 out of 5 stars rivethead
Product was not as good as expected. Pages started to come loose as soon as I started reading it. Rivethead
Published 28 days ago by G. Jenkins

5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting
A great book period.One of the very few books written by a working class writer.'Ragged trousered philanthrapist' and 'the grass arena' are the only ones that come to mind. Read more
Published 3 months ago by bucky

5.0 out of 5 stars A British view
I first read this book when I working in a factory, mid 1980's, my girlfriend at the time lent it to me. Read more
Published 4 months ago by mikee

3.0 out of 5 stars US lorry production
This is a description of the erratic life style of an assembly line worker at a General Motors factory at Flint, Michigan, trying to make his work more interesting. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Dr. Geoffrey Brundrett

5.0 out of 5 stars Should be required reading for business management courses
Hamper's style reads like a cross between James Thurber and Hunter S Thompson - savage, endlessy referential and very very funny. Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars why didn't you go into brewing?
ben hamper would have made a great brewery worker , with his cynicism and wrath he could have been the next Hunter .s Thompson,,,and we would all have loved it... Read more
Published on 15 Jun 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars A reluctant champion of the shoprat
Ben Hamper is best known as "the guy shooting free throws" in Michael Moore's "Roger and Me". Read more
Published on 8 Mar 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars I be
Unlike the songs of Bruce Springsteen that focus upon the working class of America, Hamper provides one with a glimpse into the life of an American factory worker. Read more
Published on 3 Dec 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Ben Hamper tells it like it is, I was there !
Life on the line comes back to haunt me with every word Ben writes. It's all true, I worked with Ben, I saw it all, drunk, high, sometimes sober. Read more
Published on 2 Dec 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Hamper pounds out perfect prose like a speed-addled riveter
Hamper's book is an instant American classic. His style is excellent; he captures the monotony of assembly line work, but each image is a gem. Read more
Published on 5 Oct 1998

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