As an institutional, political,and cultural oral history of the struggle to unionize the River RougePlant near Detroit during the 1930s and 40s, this book affords us a rareinsight into the difficulties of organizing a union in the face of thethen anti-union Ford Motor Company. Against a backdrop of the depressionand entrenched racism, history was made by courageous individuals whoserich, eloquent stories illuminate the character and views of others likethem across the nation, from all backgrounds: left, right, and center;black and white; native and foreign born, Jew and gentile.
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- Utgivningsdatum1996-01-01
- Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
- Vikt426 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor312
- FörlagUniversity of Illinois Press
- ISBN9780252064890
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