Eoin O'Cearnaigh

currently runs a sound preservation network for the British Library. His doctoral research examined the politics of working class autonomy through a history of industrial struggles at the Ford Motor Company in Britain.

Introduction to Robert Linhart: Concrete Analyses in the Spider's Web of Production

Introduction to Robert Linhart: Concrete Analyses in the Spider’s Web of Production

Consistent with his rejection of a romanticization of the working class, Linhart insists that workers’ knowledge is fragmented and partial, if also profound. The task of the inquiry is, thus, to collect via dialogue and participation, this disjointed state of collective memory and oral testimony in support of a systematic understanding of the whole.