Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union

Abstract

Part 1 Lost history - Sol Dollinger: Toledo Auto-Lite strike of 1934 1935 Chevrolet transmission strike Homer Martin elected president factional warfare in the U.A.W. U.A.W. Twenty-point program U.A.W. targets Ford Motor equality of sacrifice anti-union forces ambush U.A.W. Local 212 mafia and Briggs linked by Senator Estis Kefauver hearings Reuther slams door on union democracy, 1947-1948 good housekeeping seal of approval who led the 1937 sitdown strikes in Flint? Part 2 Striking Flint - an oral history of Genora (Johnson) Dollinger by Susan Rosenthal: conditions before the strike preparing for battle sit down! women comer forward the women's emergency brigade breaking the stalemate a blow against racism the sweet fruit of victory fighting racism organizing the unemployed personality speaking class struggle during the war the employers strike back back to the future.