Heroes of unwritten story : the UAW, 1934-39

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Label

Heroes of unwritten story : the UAW, 1934-39

Title remainder

the UAW, 1934-39

Statement of responsibility

Henry Kraus ; foreword by Nelson Lichtenstein

Creator

• Kraus, Henry, 1905-

Subject

• Case studies
• History
• International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (A.F. of L.) -- History -- 20th century
• Automobile industry workers -- Labor unions -- United States -- Case studies
• Strikes and lockouts -- Automobile industry -- United States -- Case studies

Genre

• History
• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

• The early United Automobile Workers union comes vividly to life in this "participant's account" of the development of an organization that once embodied the promise of the American labor movement. Henry Kraus, a UAW founder and the foremost labor journalist of that time, combines interviews conducted more than fifty years ago with a decade of more recent archival research to present a richly detailed account of the union's beginnings. Kraus introduces scores of rank-and-file union members and leaders
• Veteran organizer Wyndham Mortimer and labor pioneers Walter, Roy, and Victor Reuther, George Addes, Robert Travis, Ed Hall, and Richard Frankensteen - all are brought to life and depicted complete with personal virtues and individual foibles. The chronicle ends in 1939 as the author plans to start work on what would become his first hook, The Many and the Few

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography