Overview

Examines the organization of the unemployed during the Great Depression and demonstrates the linkage between their mobilization and automobile-industry organization.

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Author:   James J. Lorence
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780791429884

ISBN 10:   0791429881
Pages:   407
Publication Date:   03 July 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Figures Preface List of Abbreviations 1. The Residue of a Failed Economy 2. Radical Politics and Worker Response:Solidarity and Revolution, 1929--1933 3. Beyond the Core: Outstate Reactions to Economic Crisis, 1929--1933 4. New Leadership and New Opportunity: Organizing for Action, 1933--1935 5. Finding a Place: The New Unemployed Movement and the Rise of UAW, 1936--1937 6. The Union Militant: UAW and the Organized Unemployed, 1937--1938 7. The Other Activists: Alternative Approaches to Unemployed Organizing, 1937--1938 8. Troubled Times: Political Conflict and Factional Strife, 1938--1939 9. A Movement in Decline: The War Economy, Job Opportunity, and the ""Unemployables,"" 1939--1941 10. Into the War: Prosperity and the ""Unemployables"" Notes Bibliography Index"

Reviews

For years, labor and social historians have bemoaned the need for precisely this kind of study. Lorence's choice of a major industrial state, Michigan, which gave rise to the largest industrial union in the country, the UAW, is apt. Anyone interested in the Depression's history must buy this book. --Asher, University of Connecticut The scholarship is extraordinary in its depth, ingenuity and balance. The unemployed organizing of the early 1930s has never received the scholarship due its importance. The book is enormously interesting to read and full of unexpected ramifications. It may be considered one of the most important on the Depression labor movement and milieu for some time. -- Paul Buhle, Brown University Lorence's book has a number of strengths. It deals with an important topic, which allows the author to explore a variety of issues central to the literature on twentieth-century working class activism: the activities of the American Communist Party, its links to the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the United Automobile Workers, the relationship between those organizations and the New Deal welfare state. Lorence deals with these issues in a judicious and reasonable manner, and he has managed to uncover connections that the current literature does not make. All in all, it is an impressive piece of scholarship. -- Kevin Boyle, University of Massachusetts--Amherst

Author Information

James J. Lorence is Professor of History at University of Wisconsin Center--Marathon County. His other books include Gerald J. Boileau and the Progressive-Farmer-Labor Alliance and Organized Business and the Myth of the China Market: The American Asiatic Association, 1898-1937.

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