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Disruption in Detroit
eBook - Autoworkers and the Elusive Postwar Boom, Working Class in American History
ISBN/EAN: 9780252050756
Umbreit-Nr.: 2446664
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 264 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 14.09.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Kurztext
- It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers. Flush with high wages and enjoying the benefits of generous union contracts, these workers became the backbone of a thriving blue-collar middle class. It is also a myth. Daniel J. Clark began by interviewing dozens of former autoworkers in the Detroit area and found a different story--one of economic insecurity caused by frequent layoffs, unrealized contract provisions, and indispensable second jobs. Disruption in Detroit is a vivid portrait of workers and an industry that experienced anything but stable prosperity. As Clark reveals, the myths--whether of rising incomes or hard-nosed union bargaining success--came later. In the 1950s, ordinary autoworkers, union leaders, and auto company executives recognized that although jobs in their industry paid high wages, they were far from steady and often impossible to find.