Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The automobile industry in the postwar era
  • The auto workers : from the industry's beginnings through World War II
  • The UAW and reconversion
  • The General Motors Strike : the UAW jumps the gun
  • The General Motors Strike : the long stoppage is won
  • The faction fight begins : the 1946 UAW convention and its aftermath
  • The characteristics of the two UAW caucuses and trends
  • The politics of auto union factionalism : anti-communism and the erosion of the popular front on the national level
  • The politics of auto union factionalism : the Michigan CIO in the Cold War era
  • Defeat at Allis-Chalmers
  • Round two in the postwar wage negotiations
  • Shop floor issues and labor relations philosophy
  • Taft-Hartley and the defeat of the progressive alternative in the UAW
  • A victory for the Left : Coleman Young and the Wayne County CIO Council
  • The Reuther Caucus wins control
  • The consequences of the Reuther victory
  • The Cold War and the end of the Popular Front.