The Left in the Detroit Labour Movement - Martin Glaberman Martin Glaberman reviews - and contests the accuracy and honesty of - two books on the Detroit union movement.
Father of Cybernetics Norbert Wiener's Letter to UAW President Walter Reuther 1949 letter from a leading scientist to the head of the American auto workers union warning him about new technology and the negative impact it would have on manufacturing workers.
1938 Maytag strike Account of 1938 Maytag strike in Newton, Iowa by workers affiliated with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). The…
The US industrial workers’ movement Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward analyse the movement of industrial workers and the role of the unions following the great depression, from…
Wildcat! The wartime strike wave in the auto industry - Ed Jennings Ed Jennings' account of the widespread movement of wildcat strikes in the United States auto…
The World War II and post-war strike wave - Jeremy Brecher Jeremy Brecher on the huge, often unofficial, strikes which swept the US during and after World War…
Flint 1936-7: Diary of a sitdowner The diary of one of the striking General Motors workers who occupied their factories between December 1936 and February 1937.
1934: Minneapolis Teamsters strike A history of the 1934 strike of Teamsters in Minneapolis and the organising of workers of trucking companies across the city prior to it.
1946: The Oakland general strike - Stan Weir An account by Stan Weir of the gen strike in Oakland, California, in 1946.
Walter Reuther, "social unionist" - Martin Glaberman Martin Glaberman's review of 'The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor'.