The most dangerous man in Detroit
Walter Reuther and the fate of American labor
by Nelson Lichtenstein
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Walter Reuther, the most imaginative and powerful trade union leader of the past half-century, confronted the same problems facing millions of working Americans today: 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 ascent: 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.
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Labor unions, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Biography, History, Labor leaders, Automobile industry workers, Officials and employees, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement, Syndicats, Biographies, Histoire, Of Workers of America, Dirigeants syndicaux, Fonctionnaires, Automobile, Travailleurs de l'People
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-550) and index.
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