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Built in Detroit - A Story of the UAW, a Company, and a Gangster (Paperback)
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Built in Detroit - A Story of the UAW, a Company, and a Gangster (Paperback)
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Ken Morris's journey began one cold Pittsburgh morning in 1935. In
the middle of the Great Depression, he was going to see the country
as a door-to-door salesman. Detroit was to be his first and last
stop. Life was hard and few people during this time of crisis knew
how their future would evolve. After months of unemployment, Ken
found a job at the Briggs Manufacturing Company, the toughest auto
company in Detroit. Ken could not have known then he would
eventually play a pioneering role in building one of the cleanest,
most socially progressive labor unions the world has known-the
United Automobile Workers. In Built in Detroit, author Bob Morris,
Ken's son, tells not only his father's story, but also the UAW's
story-the battles with companies, the struggles within the union,
and then the vicious attacks on Detroit labor leaders in the late
1940s. This story tells of the efforts to investigate these
terrorist attacks on Detroit's union leaders, including Ken Morris,
Walter Reuther and others. This narrative sheds new light on the
mystery of who tried to assassinate UAW president Walter Reuther.
Rich with personal and historical details, Built in Detroit
narrates a story unique to Detroit. It tells the story of a
thriving city and the factories that gave the city life. Author Bob
Morris deftly portrays many of the top labor leaders of the 1930s
and 1940s, as well as the rank and file members who supported these
labor leaders. It also provides portraits of early auto
industrialists, their companies, their henchmen and the gangsters
they hired to destroy the labor movement. In the case of the Briggs
Manufacturing Company, it shows how a company that played loose
with the law ultimately floundered, its Detroit heritage largely
forgotten.
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