Author: Victor George ReutherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry workers
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The Brothers Reuther and the Story of the UAW
Author: Victor George ReutherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry workers
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The Brothers Reuther and the Story of the UAW
Author: Victor G. ReutherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry workers
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
The Brothers Reuther and the Story of the UAW
Author: The brothers Reuther and the story of the UAW. A memoir. Illustrated with photographs
Author: The Brothers Reuther and the Story of the U.A.W.
Author: Victor G. ReutherPublisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780395275153
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
American Vanguard
Author: John BarnardPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814332979
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
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.
The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945–1968
Author: Kevin BoylePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501713272
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
"Kevin Boyle has done a masterful job of identifying the unique contribution of the UAW, not only to American Liberalism, but also to the nation and to all people. As contemporary labor and society at large search for new directions, this book should be required reading."—Victor G. Reuther
Built in Detroit
Author: Robert K. MorrisPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475994360
Category : Labor leaders
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
1935. In the middle of the Great Depression, after months of unemployment, Ken Morris found a job at the Briggs Manufacturing Company, the toughest auto company in Detroit. He would eventually play a pioneering role in building one of the cleanest, most socially progressive labor unions the world has known-the United Automobile Workers. Bob Morris, Ken's son, tells not only his father's story, but also the UAW's story: the battles with companies, the struggles within the union, and then the vicious attacks on Detroit labor leaders in the late 1940s. He also provides portraits of early auto industrialists, their companies, their henchmen and the gangsters they hired to destroy the labor movement.
Choosing Sides
Author: Mike ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
UAW Politics in the Cold War Era
Author: Martin HalpernPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438405588
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This is the first book-length study of the triumph of the Reuther caucus over the Thomas-Addes-Leonard coalition in the United Auto Workers union. The dramatic defeat of the left-center coalition had far reaching significance. It helped to determine the shape of postwar labor relations, the direction of postwar liberalism, and the fate of the left. Based on manuscript sources, oral histories, and quantitative analyses of convention roll calls, UAW Politics in the Cold War Era places this union conflict in a national political context of postwar economic conflicts, the cold war, and the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act. Halpern offers a fresh point of view on the character of the two contending coalitions and the reasons for the Reuther triumph. His work is a valuable contribution to the current reassessment of the domestic politics of the early cold war years.