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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN-100252064895
ISBN-139780252064890
eBay Product ID (ePID)65738
Product Key Features
Number of Pages312 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTalking Union
SubjectLabor & Industrial Relations, General
Publication Year1996
TypeTextbook
AuthorMaurice Zeitlin, Judith Stepan-Norris
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight15 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN95-009876
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal331.88/1292/0977434
SynopsisAs an institutional, political, and cultural oral history of the struggle to unionize the River Rouge Plant near Detroit during the 1930s and 40s, this book affords us a rare insight into the difficulties of organizing a union in the face of the then anti-union Ford Motor Company. Against a backdrop of the depression and entrenched racism, history ......, As an institutional, political, and cultural oral history of the struggle to unionize the River Rouge Plant near Detroit during the 1930s and 40s, this book affords us a rare insight into the difficulties of organizing a union in the face of the then anti-union Ford Motor Company. Against a backdrop of the depression and entrenched racism, history was made by courageous individuals whose rich, eloquent stories illuminate the character and views of others like them across the nation, from all backgrounds: left, right, and center; black and white; native and foreign born, Jew and gentile.