Labor's Time Audiobook by Jonathan Cutler
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https://audiobookzap.com/free the internal union politics of the influential United Automobile Workers and Local 600, its chapter at Henry Ford's massive River Rouge factory, Jonathan Cutler demonstrates how an all-but-forgotten interracial movement for a shorter workweek during the 1950s and 1960s became a casualty of an increasingly top-heavy union bureaucracy that lost touch with the desires, fears, and aspirations of rank and file workers and dug its own grave in the process.
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Listen to full audiobook for free : https://audiobookzap.com/free Title: Labor's Time Subtitle: Shorter Hours, The Uaw, And The (Labor In Crisis) Categories: America, History, Politics, Professional Development Author: Jonathan Cutler Narrator: Gregg A. Rizzo Publisher: University Press Audiobooks Release date: 10-04-2013 Language: English Summary: The movement for a shorter workweek that once defined the labor movement in the United States was largely displaced by the new corporatist structure of organized labor in the post-New Deal era. Labor's Time examines the changes that occurred within organized labor and traces their influence on the decline of the shorter hour's movement. Focusing on the internal union politics of the influential United Automobile Workers and Local 600, its chapter at Henry Ford's massive River Rouge factory, Jonathan Cutler demonstrates how an all-but-forgotten interracial movement for a shorter workweek during the 1950s and 1960s became a casualty of an increasingly top-heavy union bureaucracy that lost touch with the desires, fears, and aspirations of rank and file workers and dug its own grave in the process.
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