Working Detroit: The Making of a Union TownAdama Books, 1984 - 246 pages |
Contents
Nineteenth Century | 2 |
Detroit On Wheels | 18 |
Toeing the Line | 29 |
Copyright | |
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activists AFL-CIO AFL's American auto industry automobile autoworkers Avenue bargaining began black workers Briggs building campaign Chrysler cigar city's Communists craft craft unions Democratic Department Detroit Detroit-area Dodge Main economic election employers employment ethnic factory families federal Ford Motor Company Ford's foundry grievance groups Hamtramck Henry Ford hired Hoffa Hotel housing immigrant Inset Jimmy Hoffa Knights of Labor labor movement later leaders machines major March Mayor membership ment Michigan militancy million Motor move negotiated neighborhoods officers organization pany Park Party percent picket lines plant Poletown police political President production protect racial recalled Red Scare Restaurant Rouge sitdown sitdown strike skilled social Socialist Street strike strikebreakers strikers teachers Teamsters tion trade UAW-CIO UAW's unemployed union members vote wage walkout Walter Reuther women Woodward Avenue workforce workplace