Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union - Softcover

Dollinger, Sol; Dollinger, Genora Johnson; Moody, Kim

 
9781583670187: Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union

Synopsis

This story of the birth and infancy of the United Auto Workers, told by two participants, shows how the gains workers made were neither easy nor inevitable-not automatic-but required strategic and tactical sophistication as well as concerted action. Sol Dollinger recounts how workers, especially activists on the political left, created an auto union and struggled with one another over what shape the union should take. In an oral history conducted by Susan Rosenthal, Genora Johnson Dollinger tells the gripping tale of her role in various struggles, both political and personal.

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About the Authors

Sol Dollinger served in the merchant marines before and during the Second World War and worked in the 1940s and 1950s at the Hudson Motor Car Company, Budd Wheel Motor Products, and Briggs Manufacturing Company in Detroit, as well as the Chevrolet assembly plant in Flint, Michigan.

Genora Johnson Dollinger (1913-1995) played a leading role in organizing women during the Flint sit-down strike of 1936-1937. Her actions were the subject of two award-winning documentaries, The Great Sit-Down Strike and With Babies and Banners.

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9781583670170: Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union

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ISBN 10:  1583670173 ISBN 13:  9781583670170
Publisher: Monthly Review Press, 2000
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