Disruption in Detroit
Subtitle: autoworkers and the elusive postwar boom
By: Daniel J. Clark
Published: 2018
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252050756; 9780252042010; 9780252083709
Subjects: History; Automobile industry and trade; Labor unions; Labor & Industrial Relations; Labor; Economic conditions; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Automobile industry workers; HISTORY; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Economic history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Shortages and strikes, 1945-1948; title: The era of "The treaty of Detroit," 1949-1950; title: No longer the arsenal of democracy, 1951-1952; title: A post-Korean War boom, 1953; title: A "painfully inconvenient" recession, 1954; title: The fifties in one year, 1955; title: "A severe and prolonged hangover," 1956-1957; title: The nadir, 1958; title: "What is happening? Which way are we headed?" 1959-1960; title: Conclusion.