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by Arthur Kornhauser, Albert J. Mayer, Harold L. Sheppard. 354 pgs.

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When Labor Votes: A Study of Auto Workers
Book by Arthur Kornhauser, Harold L. Sheppard, Albert J. Mayer; University Books, 1956
Subjects: Automobile Industry Workers--Labor Unions--Michigan--Detroit, Automobile Industry Workers--Michigan--Detroit, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, And Agricultural Implement Workers Of America, Labor Movement--Michigan--Detroit, Voting--Michigan--Case Studies
When Labor Votes A Study of Auto Workers WHEN LABOR VOTES A STUDY OF AUTO WORKERS...Gropper Associates, Inc. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 56...research grant to Wayne University from the automobile workers international union, the UAW-CIO. No strings were attached to the...International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. It is commonly known as the...
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The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor
Book by Nelson Lichtenstein; Basic Books, 1995
Subjects: International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, And Agricultural Implement Workers Of America--History, Labor Leaders--United States--Biography, Labor Unions--Automobile Industry Workers--United States--History, Labor Unions--United States--Officials And Employees--Biography, Reuther, Walter--1907-1970
...railroad station. A prowar lawyer took over leadership of the Socialist Party, after which its meetings and...Party was almost exclusively composed of skilled workers, whose sense of mastery over their immediate work...industries underwent a radical change. The brewery workers union, with its high proportion of skilled German workers...Socialist agitation in this once-fertile incubator of American labor radicalism. By 1928 dues-paying Socialist Party...apprenticeship with a local electrical firm, soon joining the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in the same union...greatest industry, a city whose identification with automobile production made it synonymous with speed, innovation...probably more widely and more intimately than the United States Senate, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the...
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Infighting in the UAW: The 1946 Election and the Ascendancy of Walter Reuther
Book by Bill Goode; Greenwood Press, 1994
Subjects: Automobile Industry Workers--Labor Unions--United States--History, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, And Agricultural Implement Workers Of America--History, Reuther, Walter--1907-1970
...International Ladies Garment Workers Union ILWU International Longshoremens and Warehousemens Union IWW Industrial Workers of the World KKK Ku Klux Klan MESA Mechanics Educational Society of America NAACP National Association for the Advancement...Archives, Wayne State University UAW United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America UE United Electrical...
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The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968
Book by Kevin Boyle; Cornell University Press, 1995
Subjects: Automobile Industry Workers--Labor Unions--United States--Political Activity--History, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, And Agricultural Implement Workers Of America--Political Activity--History, Liberalism--United States--History--20th Century, United States--Politics And Government--1945-1989
...alk. paper I. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America Political activity...union the United Automobile Workers UAW from...as a case study of postwar labor...position gave the union tremendous leverage...unions in the United States, trailing only the International Brotherhood of...Steelworkers of America in membership...
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Black Detroit and the Rise of the Uaw
Book by August Meier, Elliott Rudwick; Oxford University Press, 1981
Subjects: African American Labor Union Members--Michigan--Detroit, African Americans--Employment--Michigan--Detroit, Detroit (Mich.)--Economic Conditions, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, And Agricultural Implement Workers Of America
...conditions. 4. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. I. Rudwick...Company one of the largest...labor in America, and in the United Automobile Workers UAW one...form the United Automobile Workers of America in 1935...between the union and the black...
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"An Economic 'Frankenstein'": UAW Workers' Responses to Automation at the Ford Brook Park Plant in the 1950s
Journal article by Steve Meyer; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 28, 2002
Subjects: Automation--History, Automobile industry--History, Ford Motor Co.--History, Labor unions--Management, United Automobile Workers--Management
...leaders eventually grafted the GAW onto the unions automation program. The committee on automation...problems raised by automation." It would provide automobile workers with income security, would regulate technical...Papers (hereafter Reuther Papers), Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs (hereafter ALUA), Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich. (2) Alfred R. Granakis to Walter Reuther...The Politics of Work Time in the Automobile Industry," in Autowork, ed. Robert Asher and Ronald...Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press...134-35. (6) "Brief of Employer," National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Case No. 8-RC-1519...Stephen Meyer, "The Persistence of Fordism: Workers and Technology in the American Automobile Industry, 1900-1960," in On the Line: Essays in the...
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Rights of Men, Rites of Passage: Hunting and Masculinity at Reo Motors of Lansing, Michigan, 1945-1975 [1]
Journal article by Lisa M. Fine; Journal of Social History, Vol. 33, 2000
Subjects: Automobile industry workers--Social aspects, Hunting--Social aspects, Lansing, Michigan--Social aspects, Masculinity (Psychology)--Social aspects
...analysis of the names of the employees and the names of the farmers they were helping reveals that at least 41 were related, suggesting that these were workers released to help their families. 21 The Annual Labor...The mutualism and fair-mindedness of the sportsman and union man went hand-in-hand. 34 In the late 1940s and 1950s...that Michigan was the best year-round vacation state in America and that they intended to keep it that way, "by actively...growing leisure activities in the state that brought the automobile to the U.S. and the world. The region that saw the birth...Civilization : A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (Chicago, 1995.) (14.) Ed Langenau...
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Collective Bargaining in 1989: Old Problems, New Issues
Journal article by George Ruben; Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 113, 1990
Subjects: Airlines--Contracts, Automobile industry--Contracts, Collective bargaining--1989, Collective labor agreements--Interpretation and construction, Labor arbitration--Analysis, Labor relations--Analysis, Labor unions--Contracts, Steel industry--Contracts, Telecommunications industry--Contracts
...equal their average just prior to the merger. Automobile manufacturing Current contracts between the United Auto Workers and the "Big Three" automakers--General Motors...the parties attempted to counter the results of a sales slowdown that was exacerbated by an increase...assembly plants. Initially, the plan will be implemented at the Belvidere plant, where OSHA had cited...area, but if the program is successful, the union indicated that in 1990, it would press for similar...Manufacturing Inc., and Mazda Motor Manufacturing Corp. Aerospace Bargaining in the aerospace industries led...aerospace companies. Longshore developments The International Longshoremens Association (ILA) and Atlantic...would give Michelin 31,000 employees in North America in 11 plants in the United States, 5 in Canada...
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On the Defensive: Walter Reuther's Testimony before the McClellan Labor Rackets Committee
Journal article by Anthony Baltakis; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 25, 1999
Subjects: Communism--Political aspects, Labor unions--Investigations, Reuther, Walter Philip--Investigations, United Automobile Workers--Investigations, United States. Congress. Senate--Investigations
...Sam Berger, head of Local 102 of the Ladies Garment Workers, the local that handled the trucking for the garment...locals" in New York City in order to gain control of the New York Joint Council of Teamsters. (7) In December...also found that Dave Beck, President of the Teamsters Union, had embezzled $350,000 of union funds. Armed with...) formed a conservative faction, considerably less united than the triumvirate but more objective. (9) The prolabor...a serious threat to working-class institutions in America. He willingly participated in the expulsion of thousands...Kohler, arranged with a photographer from United Press International to take pictures of senators on the committee in conversation...deter some employees from returning to work the UAW implemented a policy of coercion which included threats, vandalism...
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Auto Industry Update
Journal article by George Ruben; Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 111, 1988
Subjects: Automobile industry--Contracts, Automobile industry--Labor contracts, Labor relations--Business and industry
...Ruben There were several major occurrences in the automobile industry in the early months of 1988, led by clashes between Chrysler Corp. and the United Automobile Workers (UAW) over cuts in operations that did not bode well...acquired the complex as part of its August 1987 purchase of American Motors Corp. The dispute eased somewhat when Chrysler...manufacturing plants, which employ 11,000 members of the union. Under the new plan, only four plants will be sold...
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Not Your Father's Detroit: The Motor City Virtually Created the Old Era of Shared Prosperity. Today, the Middle Has Fallen out of the Economy. What Can We Do to Get It Back?
Magazine article by Harold Meyerson; The American Prospect, Vol. 17, April 2006
Subjects: Automobile industry--Economic aspects, Industrial policy--Economic aspects, Industrial policy--United States, Labor unions--Economic aspects, Labor unions--Organizing, Middle class--Compensation and benefits, Middle class--Economic aspects, Middle class--Employment, Middle classes--Compensation and benefits, Middle classes--Economic aspects, Middle classes--Employment, Outsourcing--Economic aspects, Unionization--Economic aspects, United States economic conditions--Social aspects
...last year to $44 billion, contrasted to a surplus of $15 billion as recently as 1999) than our trade...compensation.) The middle is falling out of the American economy. At first glance, from a sufficient distance...to 4.8 percent. But what once distinguished the United States among the nations of the world was not simply...packets at unionized firms set the standard for non-union firms, too. Immigration was at an all-time low...there arent discrete policies that we liberals could implement if we had the power, some of which would have vast...governments. We could provide wage insurance to workers forced to move to lower-paying jobs, as many are...economists J. Bradford Jensen of the Institute for International Economics and Lori Kletzer of University of California-Santa...machine technology. Having received a spate of new aerospace contracts, Boeing is currently hiring new workers...
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UAW Lawyers Skirt the Rules of Law; Some Observers Charge That, in Winning a Controversial Jury Verdict, the United Auto Workers Legal Team Used Shady Tactics That Amounted to Obstruction of Justice
Magazine article by Michael F. Munday; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, July 22, 2002
Subjects: Actions and defenses--Analysis, Choate, Pat--Cases, Labor unions--Investments, Miller, Edward--Cases, Radio broadcasting industry--Cases, Trial practice--Moral and ethical aspects, United Automobile Workers--Cases
...workers, university graduate students and state welfare workers, diluting the influence of actual autoworkers. And UAW investment portfolios, formerly...barely visible training and education projects paid for from union "joint funds," the UAW may bear additional heat for what...big bucks by selling the UAW a pig in a poke. In 1996, United Broadcasting Network (UBN)--renamed by the UAW "ie america"--was bought by the union and a group of media entrepreneurs...
3.
The Role of Professional and Technical Workers in Progressive Social Transformation
Magazine article by Robert Heifetz; Monthly Review, Vol. 52, December 2000
Subjects: Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists, and Technicians--History, Labor unions--History, Professional employees--Labor relations, Professional workers--Labor relations, Social change--Analysis, Technicians--Labor relations
...discussion by industry and government of the need to implement a freeze on both wages and movement between jobs...for making "unpatriotic" demands for a fair share of rapidly rising defense profits as a partial offset...of the problems facing us as victorious and free Americans." 14 The kind of cooperation envisioned by FAECT...management and the three unions representing the workers at El Dorado: FAECT, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, and the Machinists Union. The plant had been making...our loyalty to our country." This comment by the Automobile Manufacturers Association was in response to the United Auto Workers (UAW) promotion of labor-management...
4.
Modular Rage: Automakers Look to Revamp the Auto Industry--and Its Labor Relations
Magazine article by Jane Slaughter; Multinational Monitor, Vol. 20, April 1999
Subjects: Automobile industry, Labor relations, Manufacturing
...Japanese-owned auto parts facilities have opened in the United States since the 1980s, with 80,000 workers total. But only a couple of those plants are union. In other words, it is not auto jobs that have been...the largest single contract at Yellowstone to Magna International, the most anti-union supplier and the one most hated...was essentially sold off to a newly-created company, American Axle. But the union took the position that St. Catharines...isolated - and no one product is key to producing an automobile. Because a strike at a module supplier instantly shuts...
5.
Obama Woos the Rust Belt: For All the Talk of Obama's "New Politics", the Presidency Might Well Be Determined by Trade Union Members in Failing Industrial Cities
Magazine article by Alec Macgillis; New Statesman, Vol. 137, October 13, 2008
Subjects: Automobile industry--Political aspects, Electioneering--Social aspects, Labor unions--Political aspects, Labor unions--United States, Middle Atlantic States (United States)--Political aspects, Obama, Barack--Political activity, Political campaigns--Social aspects, Presidential candidates--Political activity
...Might Well Be Determined by Trade Union Members in Failing Industrial Cities...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED But the redemption of John McCains running mate from Alaska...shadow of the great but tottering American Rust Belt. For all his talk of expanding...hard truths a speech he gave to car workers in Detroit demanding that they increase...by the Prius and its ilk. Many in Michigan hold the states Democratic governor...involving the young black former mayor of Detroit has not helped race relations in a...pipe-fitters blowtorch--Obama is best for workers, members are told, and if they have...
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1.
Chrysler Files for Bankruptcy; Government to Oversee; Deal May Be Challenged
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 1, 2009
Subjects: Automobile industry--Finance, Automobile industry--Officials and employees, Bankruptcy, Chrysler L.L.C.--Finance, Chrysler L.L.C.--Officials and employees
...House pressured four major bank lenders that hold 70 percent of the companys $6.9 billion in loans to agree to the deal...said the administration secured a big concession from the United Auto Workers by getting agreement to provide the lions share of payments...fund with company stock rather than cash. That is how the union is acquiring majority ownership of the company, though the...capitalism and may hamper Obamas exit strategy from Bailout America. * Christina Bellantoni, Joseph Weber, Kara Rowland, S.A...
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GM to Slash 30,000 Jobs, Shut 12 Plants; Automaker Struggles to Cut Costs
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 22, 2005
Subjects: Automobile industry--Downsizing, Automobile industry--Production management, Automobiles--Production management, General Motors Corp.--Downsizing, General Motors Corp.--Production management, Transportation equipment industry--Downsizing, Transportation equipment industry--Production management
...eliminate 30,000 jobs and cut production by 1 million automobiles in North America in a broad restructuring that will shut down a dozen...announcing today were very difficult to reach because of their impact on our employees and the communities where...largely via attrition and early retirement programs. The United Auto Workers, however, said its members are protected by the unions...Gettelfinger and UAW Vice President Richard Shoemaker. The union officials said GM should focus on designing and marketing...
3.
Last Gasp, or Chance to Revive? UPS Strike Marks Big Push for Labor
Newspaper article by Timothy Burn; The Washington Times, August 9, 1997
Subjects: Carey, Ron, Freight forwarders, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, United Parcel Service of America Inc.
...Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the United Steelworkers of America, and the International Union of Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers (UAW) have all declined significantly in the...
4.
Bush's Auto U-Turn Incites GOP; UAW Vents Anger at GOP, Cites Union-Busting Efforts
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 13, 2008
Subjects: Automobiles--Political aspects, General Motors Corp.--Political activity, News agencies--Political activity, News agencies--Political aspects, Political parties--United States, The Associated Press--Political activity, Transportation equipment industry--Political activity, Transportation equipment industry--Political aspects, United Automobile Workers--Political activity
...Auto U-Turn Incites GOP; UAW Vents Anger at GOP, Cites Union-Busting Efforts. Byline: Andrea Billups, THE WASHINGTON TIMES LANSING, Mich. -- United Auto Workers leaders on Friday accused Republicans of orchestrating regional warfare to kill the auto industry...Chattanooga. I was very involved in recruiting them here. The automobile industry is very important to our country, but its also...Graffeo said. Gerald Meyers, the former chairman and CEO of American Motors Corp. and now a crisis management consultant to...
5.
Out of Gas; on Verge of Extinction, American Auto Industry Must Make Big Changes
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 18, 2009
Subjects: Daimler AG--Officials and employees, General Motors Corp.--Officials and employees, Transportation equipment industry--Officials and employees
Out of Gas; on Verge of Extinction, American Auto Industry Must...company and its hourly union workers. Watching at the production...had to produce other automobiles - the smaller cars...significant fealty to the United Auto Workers. When...the North American International Auto Show, which draws...company and its hourly union workers.Photo by John Tully...outside the North American International Auto Show in Detroit...cuts and retooling of finances are the kind...manufacturing sectors of the United States because of...I want to save the automobile manufacturing companies...


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Michigan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...pioneers moved into Michigan. The policy of pushing Native Americans westward and opening the lands for settlement was largely due to the efforts of Gen. Lewis Cass, who was governor of Michigan Territory...and in 1836 operated as a state, although outside the Union. To resolve the boundary dispute Congress proposed that...party . The farmers joined with the growing numbers of workers in the mines and lumber camps to elect a Greenback-Democratic...Assembly Lines and Labor Strife With the invention of the automobile and the construction of automotive plants, industry in...pioneer of the labor movement, was elected president of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) in 1946. In World War II Michigan...
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Union, Labor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...members are skilled in a certain craft (e.g., the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America); and the vertical, or industrial, union, composed of workers in the same industry or industries regardless of their particular skills (e.g., the United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America). A company union is an...
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
INDIANA , state, United States midwestern state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Lake Michigan and the state of Michigan (N), Ohio (E), Kentucky, across the Ohio...Nickname, Hoosier State. Motto, Crossroads of America. State bird, cardinal. State flower, peony. State...area, separated by the Wabash River from the central agricultural plain, which is rich with deep glacial drift. The...during the war, held the state unswervingly to the Union cause even after constitutional government broke down...continued to expand and the growing numbers of industrial workers in the state sought to organize through labor unions...Indiana was an early leader in the production of automobiles. Before Detroit took control of the industry in the...


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