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Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s
 
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ISBN13:9780252045998
ISBN10:0252045998
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:230 pages
Size:229x152 mm
Weight:454 g
Language:English
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Listening to Workers

Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s
 
Edition number: First Edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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Number of Volumes: Hardback
 
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Historians and readers alike often overlook the everyday experiences of workers. Drawing on years of interviews and archival research, Daniel J. Clark presents the rich, interesting, and sometimes confounding lives of men and women who worked in Detroit-area automotive plants in the 1950s.

In their own words, the interviewees frankly discuss personal matters like divorce and poverty alongside recollections of childhood and first jobs, marriage and working women, church and hobbies, and support systems and workplace dangers. Their frequent struggles with unstable jobs and economic insecurity upend notions of the 1950s as a golden age of prosperity while stories of domestic violence and infidelity open a door to intimate aspects of their lives. Taken together, the narratives offer seldom-seen accounts of autoworkers as complex and multidimensional human beings.

Compelling and surprising, Listening to Workers foregoes the union-focused strain of labor history to provide ground-level snapshots of a blue-collar world.



“This is a richly textured, collective portrait of people coming of age in the Great Depression and World War II, who worked in one the largest and most important industries in the US and belonged to a union that led the labor movement and set the standard for wages and benefits in many industries.”--Lou Martin, author of Smokestacks in the Hills
Table of Contents:

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Alternate Groupings of Narratives

  1. Emerald Neal
  2. Elwin Brown
  3. Paul Ross
  4. Margaret Beaudry
  5. Joe Woods
  6. Les “Lucky” Coleman
  7. Gene Johnson
  8. Dorothy Sackle
  9. L.J. Scott
  10. Thomas Nowak
  11. James McGuire
  12. Edith Arnold
  13. James Franklin
  14. Ernie Liles
  15. Paul Ish
  16. Katie Neumann

Conclusion

Notes

Interview List

Index