From: "dave graham" <davgraham-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: AUT: Logistics Study - Preface
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:53:09 +0000


Two documents will follow - one in this message and the second in a later 
message. It should be self-explanatory and replies can be sent to me or to 
t.ashton-AT-merseymail.com

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The document that follows on from this preface is an appeal for help in 
setting up an inquiry in to the logistics industry. Our interest in 
logistics stems from our work with the Liverpool Dockers during their long 
and bitter struggle. We became aware that major changes had and were taking 
place in the world of logistics, or, as we then saw it, the world of 
transport. Change is a constant in the industry and much of it is 
detrimental to those who work in logistics.

It is our opinion that since the end of the seventies there has been a 
retreat from the <factory gates>, from active engagement with the class at 
the sharp end. We feel it is only from the dialectic produced by such 
engagement that useful theory will flow. Of course, we do realise that such 
work is by no means easily carried out, and in the logistics industry the 
factory gate can go hurtling by at 80 miles per hour. If there is to be what 
we autonomists call recomposition of the class then such work is a class 
imperative.

Your views on the above may differ from ours but we hope that that will not 
stop you from working with us. We intend to approach this project in a 
non-sectarian way. After all, none of us have all the answers.

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