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Listening to Workers
2024
Overview
Historians and readers alike often overlook the everyday
experiences of workers. Drawing on years of interviews and archival
research, Daniel J. Clark presents the rich, interesting, and
sometimes confounding lives of men and women who worked in
Detroit-area automotive plants in the 1950s.
In their own words, the interviewees frankly discuss personal
matters like divorce and poverty alongside recollections of
childhood and first jobs, marriage and working women, church and
hobbies, and support systems and workplace dangers. Their frequent
struggles with unstable jobs and economic insecurity upend notions
of the 1950s as a golden age of prosperity while stories of
domestic violence and infidelity open a door to intimate aspects of
their lives. Taken together, the narratives offer seldom-seen
accounts of autoworkers as complex and multidimensional human
beings.
Compelling and surprising, Listening to Workers
foregoes the union-focused strain of labor history to provide
ground-level snapshots of a blue-collar world.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Subject
/ Automobile industry workers-Michigan-Detroit-History-20th century
/ Business
/ Detroit
/ Detroit (Mich.)-Economic conditions-20th century
/ HISTORY
/ Labor
/ Labor & Employment Relations
/ Labor & Industrial Relations
/ Labor-Michigan-Detroit-History-20th century
/ Michigan
/ Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
/ Politics
ISBN
0252045998, 9780252045998, 9780252047176, 0252047176, 0252088093, 9780252088094
