Building the Union provides a unique perspective on the history of automaking and autoworkers in Detroit, Michigan. Focused on the sitdown strikes and union organizing of the 1930s, it tells the story of a small group of immigrants--British and Irish workers driven from their homes by depression and civil war--who came to Detroit in the 1920s and played a pivotal role in the rise of mass production and the success of union unionism.
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Building the Union provides a unique perspective on the history of automaking and autoworkers in Detroit, Michigan. Focused on the sitdown strikes and union organizing of the 1930s, it tells the story of a small group of immigrants--British and Irish workers driven from their homes by depression and civil war--who came to Detroit in the 1920s and played a pivotal role in the rise of mass production and the success of union unionism.
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Add this copy of Building the Union: Skilled Workers and Anglo-Gaelic to cart. $59.00, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Rutgers University Press.
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FINE. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to Leonard Woodcock: 'Leonard, Thanks for your help. Best, Steve Babson. ' 298 pp. 8vo, brick red cloth with black stamped title to spine and front cover. Woodcock was a major figure in American Labor, longtime president of the United Auto Workers, and listed #9 on Nixon's enemies list with 'no comment necessary. ' He was later named Ambassador to China by Jimmy Carter who called him, 'the senior statesman of the American labor movement-respected by, I guess, every working man and woman who was a member of a union or not in this country, and he was also respected by all those who had dealt with him from the management side. ' Provenance: a fellow dealer purchased this directly from Leonard Woodcock's widow.
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