1937
A01=Henry Kraus
AFLCIO
American history
Author_Henry Kraus
Category=NHK
CIO
classic
Communist
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Emergence of a UAW Local
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Flint
General Motors
Michigan
sit-down strike
Socialist
UAW
United Auto
United Auto Workers
Worker
Product details
- ISBN 9780252011993
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1985
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Many and the Few recounts the dramatic "inside" story of one of the pivotal strikes in American history. For six weeks in 1937, workers at General Motors' Flint, Michigan, plant refused to budge from their sit-down strike. That action changed the course of industrial and labor history, when General Motors finally agreed to recognize the United Auto Workers as the sole bargaining agent in all GM plants. Through it all, UAW activist Henry Kraus was there.
Henry Kraus is the recent recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship and the author of several books on medieval art history. He now lives and works in Paris.
