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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782028203321

Autore

Cutler Jonathan

Titolo

Labor's time [[electronic resource] ] : shorter hours, the UAW, and the struggle for the American unionism / / Jonathan Cutler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-282-73244-7

9786612732447

1-59213-785-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Labor in crisis

Disciplina

331.25/7

Soggetti

Hours of labor - United States

Labor unions - United States

Automobile industry workers - Labor unions - United States

Workweek - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Thirty Hours' Work for Forty Hours' Pay; 2. The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit; 3. The Collapse of Communism; 4. Future Perfect; 5. False Promises; 6. Retreat and Defeat; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The movement for a shorter workweek that once defined the labor movement in the United States was largely displaced by the new corporatist structure of organized labor in the post-New Deal era. Labor's Time examines the changes that occurred within organized labor and traces their influence on the decline of the shorter hours movement. Focusing on the internal union politics of the influential United Automobile Workers and Local 600, its chapter at Henry Ford's massive River Rouge factory, Jonathan Cutler demonstrates how an all-but-forgotten interracial movement for a shorter work