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Labor's Time - Shorter Hours, The Uaw, And The (Paperback, New)
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Labor's Time - Shorter Hours, The Uaw, And The (Paperback, New)
Series: Labor In Crisis
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The movement for a shorter workweek was once the defining feature
of the labor movement in the United States, but that movement was
largely displaced by the new corporatist structure of organized
labor in the post-New Deal era. Labor's Time examines the
structural transformation of organized labor and traces its
influence on the decline of the shorter hours movement. Focusing on
the internal union politics of the influential United Automobile
Workers and Local 600, its local union at Henry Ford's massive
River Rouge factory, Jonathan Cutler demonstrates how an all-but
forgotten, interracial movement for a shorter workweek during the
1950s and 1960s became a casualty of an increasingly top-heavy
union bureaucracy that lost touch with the desires, fears, and
aspirations of rank and file workers and dug its own grave in the
process. movement emerged within Local 600 in the 1940s. He then
chronicles the attempts by Walter Reuther, the head of the UAW, to
suppress the demand for thirty hours' work and forty hours pay
within the union. Cutler also considers the role of the Communist
Party in relation to Reuther and the demand for shorter hours and
larger pay. Lastly, Cutler documents and examines the ways in which
the UAW was forced to respond to rank and file pressure for a
shorter work week, and how the complexities of the local's own
organization allowed Reuther and the national union to wrest
control away from the dissidents demanding that the shorter work
week remain the central platform of union activity. Fresh and
boldly written, Labor's Time offers a new history of labor, and
recreates the moment when unions - as a movement, not as an amalgam
of leaders - could have transformed the landscape of work in the
US.
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