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    Midnight in Vehicle City : General Motors, Flint, and the strike that created the middle class / Edward McClelland.
    by McClelland, Ted, author.
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    Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2021]
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  • General Motors Corporation Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937.
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  • Labor unions -- Michigan -- Flint -- History -- 20th century.
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    9780807039670 (hardcover) :
    0807039675 (hardcover) :
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    221 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
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    Introduction: Vehicle City -- 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 -- Epilogue.
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    The Flint sit-down strike of 1936-1937 was the birth of the United Auto Workers, which set the standard for wages in every industry. McClelland tells the gripping story of how workingmen defeated General Motors, the largest industrial corporation in the world. The causes for which the strikers sat down-- collective bargaining, secure retirement, better wages-- enjoyed a half century of success. Now the middle class is disappearing and economic inequality is at its highest since the New Deal. McClelland describes the takeovers of GM plants; Michigan governor Frank Murphy's activation of the National Guard; the actions of the militaristic Women's Emergency Brigade who carried billy clubs and vowed to protect strikers from police; and tense negotiations between labor leader John L. Lewis, GM chairman Alfred P. Sloan, and labor secretary Frances Perkins. -- adapted from jacket
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