Listening to workers : oral histories of metro Detroit autoworkers in the 1950s / Daniel J. Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Daniel J., author.

Series:

Working class in American history

The working class in American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Automobile industry workers--Michigan--Detroit--HIstory--20th century.

Automobile industry workers.

Labor--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century.

Labor.

Detroit (Mich.)--Economic conditions--20th century.

Detroit (Mich.).

Physical Description:

x, 214 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2024]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Clark, Daniel J. Listening to workers

ISBN:

9780252045998

0252045998

9780252088094

0252088093

OCLC:

1427709046

Publisher Number:

99996899584