Title Organizing the unemployed : community and union activists in the industrial heartland / James J. Lorence

Published Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 407 pages) : illustrations Series SUNY series in American labor history SUNY series in American labor history. Contents 1. The Residue of a Failed Economy -- 2. Radical Politics and Worker Response: Solidarity and Revolution, 1929-1933 -- 3. Beyond the Core: Outstate Reactions to Economic Crisis, 1929-1933 -- 4. New Leadership and New Opportunity: Organizing for Action, 1933-1935 -- 5. Finding a Place: The New Unemployed Movement and the Rise of UAW, 1936-1937 -- 6. The Union Militant: UAW and the Organized Unemployed, 1937-1938 -- 7. The Other Activists: Alternative Approaches to Unemployed Organizing, 1937-1938 -- 8. Troubled Times: Political Conflict and Factional Strife, 1938-1939 -- 9. A Movement in Decline: The War Economy, Job Opportunity, and the "Unemployables," 1939-1941 -- 10. Into the War: Prosperity and the "Unemployables." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-382) and index Notes Print version record Subject International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America -- History United States. Work Projects Administration -- History SUBJECT International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America fast United States. Work Projects Administration fast Subject Unemployed -- Political activity -- Michigan -- History -- 20th century Automobile industry workers -- Political activity -- Michigan -- History -- 20th century Industrial relations -- United States -- History -- 20th century New Deal, 1933-1939. New Deal. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. New Deal, 1933-1939 Automobile industry workers -- Political activity Industrial relations Unemployed -- Political activity Labor & Workers' Economics. Business & Economics. Michigan United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 95033412 ISBN 0585043191 9780585043197

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