It takes a 1248cc diesel engine,
4 cylinders,
16 valves,
a max. torque of 190 newton meters
@ 2000 revolutions every fuckin' minute,
it takes rack & pinion steering
& drum brakes & disc brakes
& steel tyres,
it takes one thousand five hundred kilos of metal
moving, always moving
in 48 second loops on the assembly-line,
painted & cut & bolted & fed
by workers.
It
takes
workers
on 9 hour shifts,
one 30min lunch break,
and two 7 minute tea-cum-toilet breaks
(those two-seconds-late-&-pay-cut-breaks)
it takes "if my leg itched, I do not even
have time to scratch it,"
it takes waiting
for one's own fingers
it takes white-hot "discipline" cut by teeth,
welded by metal to townships
with smoke-grey evenings
it takes 13 days of occupation,
months of sit-ins, lock-outs, it takes 147 workers
arrested on manufactured evidence,
to make one of these.
(thanks to Anumeha Yadav, Satish Dalal and Imaan Khan)
4 cylinders,
16 valves,
a max. torque of 190 newton meters
@ 2000 revolutions every fuckin' minute,
it takes rack & pinion steering
& drum brakes & disc brakes
& steel tyres,
it takes one thousand five hundred kilos of metal
moving, always moving
in 48 second loops on the assembly-line,
painted & cut & bolted & fed
by workers.
It
takes
workers
on 9 hour shifts,
one 30min lunch break,
and two 7 minute tea-cum-toilet breaks
(those two-seconds-late-&-pay-cut-breaks)
it takes "if my leg itched, I do not even
have time to scratch it,"
it takes waiting
for one's own fingers
it takes white-hot "discipline" cut by teeth,
welded by metal to townships
with smoke-grey evenings
it takes 13 days of occupation,
months of sit-ins, lock-outs, it takes 147 workers
arrested on manufactured evidence,
to make one of these.
(thanks to Anumeha Yadav, Satish Dalal and Imaan Khan)
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