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Infighting in the UAW The 1946 Election and the Ascendancy of Walter Reuther
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Bill Goode
Book Code: GM8904
ISBN: 0-313-28904-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28904-0
184 pages, tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 7/30/1994
List Price: $103.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions in Labor Studies
Series Number: 44
Reviews:
  • Goode writes this absorbing history from the perspective of a participant and a scholar. This tale of factional infighting draws upon such an impressive array of research and personal experiences that Goode is able to lend to his topic an immediacy and intimacy not often seen in historical research. No doubt this carefully crafted and well-argued book will be controversial; it belongs in every labor history collection.
    —Choice
Description: Usually the defeat of one union official by another would not occasion great interest by historians. The highly charged atmosphere after World War II and at the beginning of the cold war however led to a strongly disputed election which left Walter Reuther the new president of the UAW. The opinions as to why Reuther unseated the incumbents are many and varied. Dr. Goode goes into these in depth in his interesting and well documented work dealing with this watershed event in American Unionism. The research for the work has been done with the aid of union archives, published material, and oral history from some of the participants in the event.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The UAW Prior to 1940
  • Early History of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists
  • The War Years, 1940-1946
  • Reuther's Ascendancy
  • Union Issues between the Conventions
  • Political Issues between Conventions
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 93-30450
LCC Class: HD6515
Dewey Class: 331.88
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