Automobile Workers and the American Dream
Author: Ely Chinoy
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 176
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Author: Ely Chinoy
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Feldman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780252061486
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
Author: Lars Bjorn
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 21
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ruth Milkman
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 50
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clifton Lambreth
Publisher: Mary Calia
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1933715448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fictionalized account of real-life financial difficulties faced by the Ford Motor Company.
Author: Gregg Shotwell
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2012-02-14
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1608461637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Randi Storch
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-03-06
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 111854157X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorking 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
Author: Paul Ingrassia
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-05-01
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 145164065X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Author: Harvard Sitkoff
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 397
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