Sit Down The General Motors Strike Of 1936 1937

Author : Sidney Fine
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472329489
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sit-down: the General Motors Strike of 1936-1937 written by Sidney Fine and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the most significant American labor conflict of the 20th century

Author : Edward McClelland
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807039683
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight in Vehicle City written by Edward McClelland and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Midland Authors Book Award in History In a time of great inequality and a gutted middle class, the dramatic story of “the strike heard around the world” is a testament to what workers can gain when they stand up for their rights. The tumultuous Flint sit-down strike of 1936-1937 was the birth of the United Auto Workers, which set the standard for wages in every industry. Midnight in Vehicle City tells the gripping story of how workers defeated General Motors, the largest industrial corporation in the world. Their victory ushered in the golden age of the American middle class and created a new kind of America, one in which every worker had a right to a share of the company’s wealth. The causes for which the strikers sat down—collective bargaining, secure retirement, better wages—enjoyed a half century of success. But now, the middle class is disappearing and economic inequality is at its highest since before the New Deal. Journalist and historian Edward McClelland brings the action-packed events of the strike back to life—through the voices of those who lived it. In vivid play-by-plays, McClelland narrates the dramatic scenes including of the takeovers of GM plants; violent showdowns between picketers and the police; Michigan governor Frank Murphy’s activation of the National Guard; the actions of the militaristic Women’s Emergency Brigade who carried billy clubs and vowed to protect strikers from police; and tense negotiations between labor leader John L. Lewis, GM chairman Alfred P. Sloan, and labor secretary Frances Perkins. The epic tale of the strike and its lasting legacy shows why the middle class is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century and will guide our understanding of what we will lose if we don’t revive it.

Author : Walter Linder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Industrial Unionism was Won written by Walter Linder and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Linder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book The Great Flint Sit-down Strike Against G.M. 1936-37 written by Walter Linder and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven P. Dandaneau
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438400454
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Town Abandoned written by Steven P. Dandaneau and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1996-04-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hometown to both General Motors and the United Auto Workers, and the setting for the documentary film Roger and Me, Flint, Michigan, is a striking example of a declining city in America's Rust Belt. A Town Abandoned examines Flint's response to its own social and economic decline and at the same time pursues a broad analysis of class and culture in America's late capitalist society. It tells the story of how Flint's local institutions and citizens interpret and rationalize their city's massive auto-industry job loss and consequent decline, and it relates these interpretations to statewide, national, and international forces that led to the deindustrialization. Using a critical-theory approach, Dandaneau reveals the futility of Flint's efforts to confront essentially global problems and moreover depicts the disturbing conceptual and cultural distortions that result from its sustained powerlessness. Dandaneau shows that all policy solutions to Flint's problems were in essence public relations solutions, and he gives a moving portrayal of the consequences for local communities of the internationalization of American business.

Author : General Motors Corporation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the General Motors Strike written by General Motors Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Genora Johnson Dollinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965235907
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Striking Flint written by Genora Johnson Dollinger and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patricia Yeghissian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emergence of the Red Tams written by Patricia Yeghissian and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shaw Livermore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governor Murphy and the General Motors Sitdown Strike, 1937 written by Shaw Livermore and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joe Burns
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642596817
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Struggle Unionism written by Joe Burns and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who want to build a fighting labor movement, there are many questions to answer. How to relate to the union establishment which often does not want to fight? Whether to work in the rank and file of unions or staff jobs? How much to prioritize broader class demands versus shop floor struggle? How to relate to foundation-funded worker centers and alternative union efforts? And most critically, how can we revive militancy and union power in the face of corporate power and a legal system set up against us? Class struggle unionism is the belief that our union struggle exists within a larger struggle between an exploiting billionaire class and the working class which actually produces the goods and services in society. Class struggle unionism looks at the employment transaction as inherently exploitative. While workers create all wealth in society, the outcome of the wage employment transaction is to separate workers from that wealth and create the billionaire class. From that simple proposition flows a powerful and radical form of unionism. Historically, class struggle unionists placed their workplace fights squarely within this larger fight between workers and the owning class. Viewing unionism in this way produces a particular type of unionism which both fights for broader class issues but is also rooted in workplace-based militancy. Drawing on years of labor activism and study of labor tradition Joe Burns outlines the key set of ideas common to class struggle unionism and shows how these ideas can create a more militant, democtractic and fighting labor movement.