| Organizing the Unemployed: Community and Union Activists in the Industrial Heartland Contributor(s): Lorence, James J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791429881 ISBN-13: 9780791429884 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $36.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1996 Annotation: Community and Union Activists in the Industrial Heartland. This book not only helps fill a void in our knowledge of community activism, worker culture, and labor history in the 1930s but also sheds light on the New Deal's domestication of American labor and the channeling of mass protest toward politically and socially acceptable goals. The UAW (United Automobile Workers) acceptance of responsibility for the underclass of the 1930s raises pertinent questions for labor in the 1990s. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: 331.881 |
| LCCN: 95-33412 |
| Series: Suny American Labor History |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.9" W x 9.01" (1.29 lbs) 407 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Focusing on Michigan during the Great Depression, this book highlights the efforts of community organizers and activists in the United Automobile Workers (UAW) to mobilize the jobless for mass action. In doing so, it demonstrates the relationship between unemployed activism and the rise of industrial unionism. Moreover, by discussing Communist and Socialist initiatives on behalf of displaced workers, the book illuminates the impact of radicalism on social change and shows how political claims influenced the cultural discourse of the 1930s. The book not only helps fill a void in our knowledge of community activism, worker culture, and labor history in the 1930s but also sheds light on the New Deal's domestication of American labor and the channeling of mass protest toward politically and socially acceptable goals. The UAW acceptance of responsibility for the underclass of the 1930s raises pertinent questions for labor in the 1990s. |