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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s

Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s

Clark, Daniel J.

Paperback

Series: Working Class in American History

Business GeneralRegional: MidwestSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 0252088093
ISBN13: 9780252088094
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Aug 20 2024
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Historians and readers alike often overlook the everyday experiences of workers. Drawing on years of interviews and archival research, Daniel J. Clark presents the rich, interesting, and sometimes confounding lives of men and women who worked in Detroit-area automotive plants in the 1950s.

In their own words, the interviewees frankly discuss personal matters like divorce and poverty alongside recollections of childhood and first jobs, marriage and working women, church and hobbies, and support systems and workplace dangers. Their frequent struggles with unstable jobs and economic insecurity upend notions of the 1950s as a golden age of prosperity while stories of domestic violence and infidelity open a door to intimate aspects of their lives. Taken together, the narratives offer seldom-seen accounts of autoworkers as complex and multidimensional human beings.

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