Not Automatic
Subtitle: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: May 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781583670187
Subjects: Gender studies; History of specific subjects; Political activism; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Trade unions; Work & labour; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Labor unions; International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America; United States - State & Local - General; Philosophy; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; USA; Organizing; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; Women's Studies - History; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY AND TRADE_UNITED STATES; Business & Economics / Industries / Automobile Industry; LABOR UNIONS_ORGANIZING; International Union, United Au; United States; Women labor union members; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Political; Automobile industry workers; History
Description: This story of the birth and infancy of the United Auto Workers, told by two participants, shows that the gains workers made were neither easy nor inevitable - not automatic - but required strategic and tactical sophistication as well as concerted action. Sol Dollinger recounts how workers, especially activists on the political left, created an auto union and struggled with one another over what shape the union should take. In an oral history conducted by Susan Rosenthal, Genora Johnson Dollinger tells the gripping tale of her role in various struggles, both political and personal.