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Disruption in Detroit : autoworkers and the elusive postwar boom / Daniel J. Clark.

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Main Author: Clark, Daniel J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Series:Working class in American history.
Subjects:
Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
Automobile industry workers > Labor unions > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
Automobile industry and trade > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Automobile industry and trade.
Automobile industry workers.
Automobile industry workers > Labor unions.
Economic history.
Michigan > Detroit.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Shortages and strikes, 1945-1948
  • The era of "The treaty of Detroit," 1949-1950
  • No longer the arsenal of democracy, 1951-1952
  • A post-Korean War boom, 1953
  • A "painfully inconvenient" recession, 1954
  • The fifties in one year, 1955
  • "A severe and prolonged hangover," 1956-1957
  • The nadir, 1958
  • "What is happening? Which way are we headed?" 1959-1960
  • Conclusion.

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