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Story Of Reo Joe - Work, Kin, And Community (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Story Of Reo Joe - Work, Kin, And Community (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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The Reo Motor Car Company operated in Lansing, Michigan, for
seventy years, and encouraged its thousands of workers to think of
themselves as part of a factory family. Reo workers, most typically
white, rural, native-born Protestant men, were dubbed Reo Joes.
These ordinary fellows had ordinary aspirations: job security,
decent working conditions, and sufficient pay to support a family.
They treasured leisure time for family activities (many sponsored
by the company), hunting, and their fraternal organizations. Even
after joining a union, Reo Joes remained loyal to the company and
proud of the community built around it. Lisa M. Fine tells the Reo
story from the workers' perspective on the vast social, economic,
and political changes that took place in the first three quarters
of the twentieth century.Lisa Fine explores their understanding of
the city where they lived, the industry that employed them, and the
ideas about work, manhood, race, and family that shaped their
identities. "The Story of Reo Joe" is, then, a book about
historical memory; it challenges us to reconsider what we think we
know about corporate welfare, unionization, de-industrialization,
and working-class leisure. Lisa M. Fine is Associate Professor of
History at Michigan State University. She is the author of "Souls
of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930"
(Temple), and coeditor, with Mary Anderson, Kathleen Geissler, and
Joyce Ladenson, of "Doing Feminism: Teaching and Research in the
Academy".
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