The Origins of the United Automobile Workers, 1933-1935
Title | The Origins of the United Automobile Workers, 1933-1935 PDF eBook |
Author | Sidney Fine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Labor unions |
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American Automobile Workers, 1900-1933
Title | American Automobile Workers, 1900-1933 PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce S. Peterson |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1987-11-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1438415982 |
This book is a comprehensive history of automobile workers in the pre-union era. It covers changes in the kinds of workers who staffed the auto factories, developments in the labor process and in overall conditions of work, daily life outside the factories, informal responses of workers to routinized, monotonous, and highly structured work, and automobile worker unions before the creation of the United Automobile Workers. Although the 1920s were seen at the time as a period of peaceful and cooperative labor relations, author Joyce Peterson looks beneath the surface to discover the many ways in which auto workers expressed their displeasure with and attempted to fight against working conditions. The book also examines the Briggs strike of 1933, the first strike to significantly register the impact of the Great Depression upon the automobile industry and to mark the end of the pre-union era. The automobile industry was a model of twentieth century mass production techniques, of managerial organization, and of labor relations. Studying automobile workers in their historical and social setting explains a great deal about the nature of modern industry—how it affects the daily life and work of employees and how workers see themselves as individuals and members of a working class.
American Vanguard
Title | American Vanguard PDF eBook |
Author | John Barnard |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 628 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Automobile industry and trade |
ISBN | 9780814332979 |
The struggles and victories of the UAW form an important chapter in the story of American democracy. American Vanguard is the first and only history of the union available for both general and academic audiences. In this thorough and engaging narrative, John Barnard not only records the controversial issues tackled by the UAW, but also lends them immediacy through details about the workers and their environments, the leaders and the challenges that they faced outside and inside the organization, and the vision that guided many of these activists. Throughout, Barnard traces the UAW's two-fold goal: to create an industrial democracy in the workplace and to pursue a social-democratic agenda in the interest of the public at large. Part one explores the obstacles to the UAW's organization, including tensions between militant reformers and workers who feared for their jobs; ideological differences; racial and ethnic issues; and public attitudes toward unions. By the outbreak of World War II, however, the union had succeeded in redistributing power on the shop floor in its members' favor. Part two follows the union during Walter P. Reuther's presidency (1946-1970). During this time, pioneering contracts brought a new standard of living and income security to the workers, while an effort was made to move America toward a social democracy-which met with mixed results during the civil rights decade. Throughout, Barnard presents balanced interpretations grounded in evidence, while setting the UAW within the context of the history of the U.S. auto industry and national politics.
A Social History of Automobile Workers Before Unionization, 1900-1933
Title | A Social History of Automobile Workers Before Unionization, 1900-1933 PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Shaw Peterson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 690 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Automobile industry workers |
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The Origins of the United Automobile Workers
Title | The Origins of the United Automobile Workers PDF eBook |
Author | Irwin Klibaner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1959 |
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The United Automobile Workers of America, 1935-1951
Title | The United Automobile Workers of America, 1935-1951 PDF eBook |
Author | George Douglas Blackwood |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1048 |
Release | 1951 |
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Turbulent Years
Title | Turbulent Years PDF eBook |
Author | Irving Bernstein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 928 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Labor policy |
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