Author: Ely ChinoyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry workers
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Automobile Workers and the American Dream
Author: Ely ChinoyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry workers
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
End of the Line
Author: Richard FeldmanPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252061486
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"This marvelous book captures in a most poignant and accurate way what life is like for the millions who still make up the 'blue collar' backbone of American industry."--Barry Bluestone, author of The Deindustrialization of America "A richly detailed, well-crafted portrait of a cross section of autoworkers in the midst of an identity crisis and a crisis gripping the U.S. auto industry."--Frank Hammer, President, United Auto Workers Local 909
Automobile Workers and the American Dream
Author: Lars Bjornכרעסטאמאטיע פאר ליטעראטור
Author: The American Dream Deferred?
Author: Ruth MilkmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry workers
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Automobile Workers and the American Dream ... Introduction by David Riesman
Author: Ely ChinoyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry workers
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Ford and the American Dream
Author: Clifton LambrethPublisher: Mary Calia
ISBN: 1933715448
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A fictionalized account of real-life financial difficulties faced by the Ford Motor Company.
Working Hard for the American Dream
Author: Randi StorchPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111854157X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Working Hard for the American Dream examines the various economic, social, and political developments that shaped labor history in the United States from World War I until the present day. Presents an overview of labor history that also considers women workers, ethnic America, and post-World War II workers Incorporates the most recent scholarship in labor history Takes the story of labor up to the present day in a readable and accessible manner
Autoworkers Under the Gun
Author: Gregg ShotwellPublisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608461637
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The veteran autoworker and author of the pro-labor newsletter Live Bait & Ammo offers a blow-by-blow analysis of workers’ rights under attack. Greg Shotwell was a machine operator at General Motor’s Delphi division during its tragic spinoff from GM and eventual bankruptcy. He watched from a front-row seat as the United Auto Workers Union collaborated with antilabor policies that led to plant closings and cuts to wages and benefits. A dissident member of the UAW, Shotwell made a name for himself chronicling the outrages and absurdities of corporate managers and corrupt union leaders in his popular shop-floor newsletter, Live Bait & Ammo. Autoworkers Under the Gun collects Shotwell’s essential writings during that fateful period. These LB&A fliers quickly grew legs of their own, distributed by rank-and-file workers in auto plants across the United States and cited by industry analysts. Spanning a decade of autoworker resistance, this body of work stands as a call to action for a new generation of workers coming of age in recession-wracked America.
Engines of Change
Author: Paul IngrassiaPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145164065X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A narrative like no other: a cultural history that explores how cars have both propelled and reflected the American experience— from the Model T to the Prius. From the assembly lines of Henry Ford to the open roads of Route 66, from the lore of Jack Kerouac to the sex appeal of the Hot Rod, America’s history is a vehicular history—an idea brought brilliantly to life in this major work by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Paul Ingrassia. Ingrassia offers a wondrous epic in fifteen automobiles, including the Corvette, the Beetle, and the Chevy Corvair, as well as the personalities and tales behind them: Robert McNamara’s unlikely role in Lee Iacocca’s Mustang, John Z. DeLorean’s Pontiac GTO , Henry Ford’s Model T, as well as Honda’s Accord, the BMW 3 Series, and the Jeep, among others. Through these cars and these characters, Ingrassia shows how the car has expressed the particularly American tension between the lure of freedom and the obligations of utility. He also takes us through the rise of American manufacturing, the suburbanization of the country, the birth of the hippie and the yuppie, the emancipation of women, and many more fateful episodes and eras, including the car’s unintended consequences: trial lawyers, energy crises, and urban sprawl. Narrative history of the highest caliber, Engines of Change is an entirely edifying new way to look at the American story.