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Disruption in Detroit autoworkers and the elusive postwar boom /

"It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers. Flush with high wages and enjoying the benefits of generous union contracts, these workers became the backbone of a thriving blue-collar middle class. It is also a myth. Daniel J. Clark began by intervi...

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Main Author: Clark, Daniel J.,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Physical Description: xi, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
Series: Working class in American history.
Subjects:
Automobile industry workers -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century.
Automobile industry workers -- Labor unions -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century.
Automobile industry and trade -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Shortages and strikes, 1945-1948
  • The era of "The treaty of Detroit," 1949-1950
  • No longer the arsenal of democracy, 1951-1952
  • A post-Korean War boom, 1953
  • A "painfully inconvenient" recession, 1954
  • The fifties in one year, 1955
  • "A severe and prolonged hangover," 1956-1957
  • The nadir, 1958
  • "What is happening? Which way are we headed?" 1959-1960
  • Conclusion.

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