|<br > Lordstown: Disruption<br > on the Assembly Line<br > Every day I come out of there I feel ripped off. I m gettin"<br > the shit kicked out of me and I m helpless to slop it. A good<br > day s work is being tired but not exhausted. Out there all I<br > feel is glad when it s over.<br > I don t even feel useful now. They could replace me; I<br > don t even feel necessary They could always find some-<br > body stupider than me to do the job."<br > --Lordstown assembly line worker，<br > twenty years old<br >The Lordstown complex of the General Motors Company sprawls<br >along a huge， flat cornfield alongside Route 45 near Warren， Ohio.<br >The facility is called a "complex" because it includes several<br >plants doing different things. The older plants--the Fisher Body<br >shop making subassemblies such as fenders for Chevrolet cars，<br >and the smaller truck plant--are no different fi om the many<br >