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Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: August Meier
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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A classic of labor history, with a new foreword by one of the leading figures in urban studies
The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Beth Tompkins Bates
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that be
Maurice Sugar
Language: en
Pages: 403
Authors: Christopher H. Johnson
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-05 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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Christopher Johnson chronicles the life of Maurice Sugar, from his roots in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, through his resistance with Eugene V Debs to World War I
Built in Detroit
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Bob Morris
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: iUniverse

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1935. In the middle of the Great Depression, after months of unemployment, Ken Morris found a job at the Briggs Manufacturing Company, the toughest auto company
Detroit, I Do Mind Dying
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Dan Georgakas
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: South End Press

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This new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic--along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with parti
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