Building the Union: Skilled Workers and Anglo-Gaelic Immigrants in the Rise of the UAW

by Steve Babson

Building the Union provides a unique perspective on the history of automaking and autoworkers in Detroit, Michigan. Focused on the sitdown strikes and union organizing of the 1930s, it tells the story of a small group of immigrants--British and Irish workers driven from their homes by depression and civil war--who came to Detroit in the 1920s and played a pivotal role in the rise of mass production and the success of union unionism. Steve Babson challenges...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813516579
• ISBN13: 9780813516578
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.