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Sit-down: the General Motors Strike of 1936-1937

Author: Sidney Fine
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472329489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494

Book Description
Studies the most significant American labor conflict of the 20th century

Organizing the Unemployed

Author: James J. Lorence
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438411251
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description
Focusing on Michigan during the Great Depression, this book highlights the efforts of community organizers and activists in the United Automobile Workers (UAW) to mobilize the jobless for mass action. In doing so, it demonstrates the relationship between unemployed activism and the rise of industrial unionism. Moreover, by discussing Communist and Socialist initiatives on behalf of displaced workers, the book illuminates the impact of radicalism on social change and shows how political claims influenced the cultural discourse of the 1930s. The book not only helps fill a void in our knowledge of community activism, worker culture, and labor history in the 1930s but also sheds light on the New Deal's domestication of American labor and the channeling of mass protest toward politically and socially acceptable goals. The UAW acceptance of responsibility for the underclass of the 1930s raises pertinent questions for labor in the 1990s.