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OverviewHistorians 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel J. ClarkPublisher: University of Illinois Press Imprint: University of Illinois Press Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780252045998ISBN 10: 0252045998 Pages: 230 Publication Date: 14 October 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgments Alternate Groupings of Narratives Emerald Neal Elwin Brown Paul Ross Margaret Beaudry Joe Woods Les “Lucky” Coleman Gene Johnson Dorothy Sackle L.J. Scott Thomas Nowak James McGuire Edith Arnold James Franklin Ernie Liles Paul Ish Katie Neumann Conclusion Notes Interview List IndexReviews“This is a richly textured, collective portrait of people coming of age in the Great Depression and World War II, who worked in one the largest and most important industries in the US and belonged to a union that led the labor movement and set the standard for wages and benefits in many industries.”--Lou Martin, author of Smokestacks in the Hills Author InformationDaniel J. Clark is a professor of history at Oakland University. He is the author of Disruption in Detroit: Autoworkers and the Elusive Postwar Boom. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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