The Emergence of a UAW Local, 1936–1939: A Study in Class and Culture

By Peter Friedlander

Peter Friedlander documents the formation of a local United Automobile Workers union at a mid-sized parts factory during the turbulent 1930s. Blending oral history based on personal interviews with a keen analysis of the worker's class structure and widely varied cultural backgrounds, Freidlander describes the transformation of a working-class community by its own actions and the ensuing stratification and factionalizing within that union. The result is a firsthand account of the experience of unionization in personal and social terms.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822932954
• ISBN13: 9780822932956
• Release Date: July 1975
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.8"