num_pages: 592
description: Walter Reuther, the most imaginative and powerful trade union leader of the past half-century, confronted the same problems facing millions of working Americans how to use the spectacular productivity of our economy to sustain and improve the standard of living and security of ordinary Americans. As Nelson Lichtenstein observes, Reuther, the president of the United Automobile Workers from 1946 to 1970, may not have had all the answers, but at least he was asking the right questions.The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit vividly recounts Reuther's remarkable his days as a skilled worker at Henry Ford's great River Rouge complex, his two-year odyssey in the Soviet Union's infant auto industry in the early 1930s, and his immersion in the violent labor upheavals of the late 1930s that gave rise to the CIO. Under Reuther, the autoworkers' standard of living doubled.
language: English
title: The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit: Walter Reuther And The Fate Of American Labor
titlecomplete: The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit: Walter Reuther And The Fate Of American Labor
characters: William S. Knudsen, Victor G. Reuther, John L. Lewis, Lyndon B. Johnson, George Addes, Richard Frankensteen, Walter Reuther, Sidney Hillman, George Meany
genres: History, Economics, American History, Biography, Business, 20th Century, Nonfiction, Labor
ratings_count: 82
publisher: Basic Books