Disruption in Detroit : autoworkers and the elusive postwar boom /
It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers. Flush with high wages and enjoying the benefits of generous union contracts, these workers became the backbone of a thriving blue-collar middle class. It is also a myth. Daniel J. Clark began by interviewing...
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| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018] |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Shortages and strikes, 1945-1948
- The era of "The treaty of Detroit," 1949-1950
- No longer the arsenal of democracy, 1951-1952
- A post-Korean War boom, 1953
- A "painfully inconvenient" recession, 1954
- The fifties in one year, 1955
- "A severe and prolonged hangover," 1956-1957
- The nadir, 1958
- "What is happening? Which way are we headed?" 1959-1960
- Conclusion.