Author: Joyce S. Peterson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438415982
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
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 industry—how it affects the daily life and work of employees and how workers see themselves as individuals and members of a working class.
American Automobile Workers, 1900-1933
Author: Joyce S. Peterson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438415982
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
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 industry—how it affects the daily life and work of employees and how workers see themselves as individuals and members of a working class.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438415982
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
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 industry—how it affects the daily life and work of employees and how workers see themselves as individuals and members of a working class.
The Car Worker
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employment forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employment forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
The Other Car Workers
Author: E. Kahveci
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230209386
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The maritime car carrier industry has been entirely neglected by social scientists. This book examines globalization changes in cost structure and dynamics; in ownership, freight, labour and other markets; in technological innovation and ship design; and in relation to car manufacturers, ship management companies and crewing agents.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230209386
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The maritime car carrier industry has been entirely neglected by social scientists. This book examines globalization changes in cost structure and dynamics; in ownership, freight, labour and other markets; in technological innovation and ship design; and in relation to car manufacturers, ship management companies and crewing agents.
The Railroad Worker
Not Automatic
Author: Sol Dollinger
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583670181
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
"Sol Dollinger's remembrance of UAW's early days are juicy and provocative. His recall of those goofy internecine political battles within the union is tragic-comic. Yet they, united, even though hollering at each other, made GM, Ford, et al,recognize the union. The sequence involving Genora Johnson Dollinger, the heroine of the 1937 sit-down strike, is deeply moving and inspiring." --Studs Terkel "Should be read by every labor person who takes the principles of trade union history seriously. . . . Brings the history of the UAW up for a new survey of the events to include the men and women who would otherwise be unsung heroes or written out of history totally." --David Yettaw President, UAW Buick Local 599, 1987-1996 This story of the birth and infancy of the United Auto Workers, told by two participants, shows how the gains workers made were not easy or inevitable-not automatic-but required strategic and tactical sophistication as well as concerted action. Sol Dollinger recounts how workers, especially activists on the political left, created an auto union and struggled with one another over what shape the union should take. In an oral history conducted by Susan Rosenthal, Genora Johnson Dollinger tells the gripping tale of her role in various struggles, both political and personal.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583670181
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
"Sol Dollinger's remembrance of UAW's early days are juicy and provocative. His recall of those goofy internecine political battles within the union is tragic-comic. Yet they, united, even though hollering at each other, made GM, Ford, et al,recognize the union. The sequence involving Genora Johnson Dollinger, the heroine of the 1937 sit-down strike, is deeply moving and inspiring." --Studs Terkel "Should be read by every labor person who takes the principles of trade union history seriously. . . . Brings the history of the UAW up for a new survey of the events to include the men and women who would otherwise be unsung heroes or written out of history totally." --David Yettaw President, UAW Buick Local 599, 1987-1996 This story of the birth and infancy of the United Auto Workers, told by two participants, shows how the gains workers made were not easy or inevitable-not automatic-but required strategic and tactical sophistication as well as concerted action. Sol Dollinger recounts how workers, especially activists on the political left, created an auto union and struggled with one another over what shape the union should take. In an oral history conducted by Susan Rosenthal, Genora Johnson Dollinger tells the gripping tale of her role in various struggles, both political and personal.
Autowork
Author: Robert Asher
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791424094
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
An anthology of original essays on the history of work experience in automobile factories, from 1913 to the present.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791424094
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
An anthology of original essays on the history of work experience in automobile factories, from 1913 to the present.
Subversive Influence in the Dining Car and Railroad Food Workers Union
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The subcommittee is concerned over the fact that the Communists have gained a foothold in the railroad industry. At this time the control is only a small segment but there are efforts to expand control. It is imperative to the railroad industry and the whole national economy that this control be broken.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The subcommittee is concerned over the fact that the Communists have gained a foothold in the railroad industry. At this time the control is only a small segment but there are efforts to expand control. It is imperative to the railroad industry and the whole national economy that this control be broken.
The Many and the Few
Author: Henry Kraus
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252011993
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Many and the Few recounts the dramatic "inside" story of one of the pivotal strikes in American history. For six weeks in 1937, workers at General Motors' Flint, Michigan, plant refused to budge from their sit-down strike. That action changed the course of industrial and labor history, when General Motors finally agreed to recognize the United Auto Workers as the sole bargaining agent in all GM plants. Through it all, UAW activist Henry Kraus was there.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252011993
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Many and the Few recounts the dramatic "inside" story of one of the pivotal strikes in American history. For six weeks in 1937, workers at General Motors' Flint, Michigan, plant refused to budge from their sit-down strike. That action changed the course of industrial and labor history, when General Motors finally agreed to recognize the United Auto Workers as the sole bargaining agent in all GM plants. Through it all, UAW activist Henry Kraus was there.