Midnight in Vehicle City : : General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class
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Call Number: 977.434 McC
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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A stranger in town -- The perkins boys -- "This is where the fight begins" -- The siege -- The battle of the running bulls -- The women's emergency brigade -- "General Motors has double crossed us" -- Miss Perkins and Mr. Sloan -- Chevy four -- The settlement -- Evacuation day.
"The story of the forty-four-day Flint Sit Down Strike of 1936-37, which led to the recognition of the United Auto Workers, the union whose wages and benefits set the standard for the 20th Century American middle class"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
Boston : Beacon Press, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: 220 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780807039670
0807039675
SUBJECTS
General Motors Corporation Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937.
Labor unions -- Flint -- History -- 20th century.
Michigan -- Flint.