Author: Glenn A. NiemeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Automotive Career of Ransom E. Olds
Author: Glenn A. NiemeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Automotive Career of Ransom E. Olds
Author: Glenn Alan NiemeyerThe Automobile Career of Ransom E. Olds
Author: Glenn Alan NiemeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Automotive Career of Ransom E. Olds. Bureau of Business and Economic
Author: Glenn A. NiemeyerThe automotive career of Ranson E. Olds
Author: Glenn A NiemeyerAmerican Automobile Workers, 1900-1933
Author: Joyce Shaw PetersonPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887065736
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The book is a first-rate social history of automobile workers in the pre-union era. I wish that I had written it. Stephen Meyer, University of Wisconsin-Parkside 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 industryhow it affects the daily life and work of employees and how workers see themselves as individuals and members of a working class.
The Automobile in American History and Culture
Author: Michael L. BergerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313016062
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
This comprehensive reference guide reviews the literature concerning the impact of the automobile on American social, economic, and political history. Covering the complete history of the automobile to date, twelve chapters of bibliographic essays describe the important works in a series of related topics and provide broad thematic contexts. This work includes general histories of the automobile, the industry it spawned and labor-management relations, as well as biographies of famous automotive personalities. Focusing on books concerned with various social aspects, chapters discuss such issues as the car's influence on family life, youth, women, the elderly, minorities, literature, and leisure and recreation. Berger has also included works that investigate the government's role in aiding and regulating the automobile, with sections on roads and highways, safety, and pollution. The guide concludes with an overview of reference works and periodicals in the field and a description of selected research collections. The Automobile in American History and Culture provides a resource with which to examine the entire field and its structure. Popular culture scholars and enthusiasts involved in automotive research will appreciate the extensive scope of this reference. Cross-referenced throughout, it will serve as a valuable research tool.
Story Of Reo Joe
Author: Lisa FinePublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592137881
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A collision of history and memory.
R.E. Olds and Industrial Lansing
Author: Michael J. RodriguezPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738532721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Upon the dedication of a new Capitol building in 1879, the city of Lansing was just beginning to emerge from the swampy wilderness of its recent past. As industry began to take root along the banks of the Grand River, Ransom Eli Olds brought his father's motor shop to national prominence with advancements in gasoline and steam engines, and then horseless carriages. By the early 20th century, Oldsmobile became the world's first mass producer of automobiles and Olds had moved on to found a second car company, making Lansing the first Auto City. Through these efforts, Olds rose to become one of the nation's greatest industrialists and entrepreneurs. Using primary documents and historical images, this book traces the industrial history of the Capital City within the context of one of the 20th century's greatest entrepreneurs, R.E. Olds.
The Automobile and American Culture
Author: David Lanier LewisPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472080441
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Presents essays on all phases of the American automobile industry and the effect of its product on individual lives and the culture of the society.