Lecture - The UAW’s Golden Age?: Looking Back at Autoworkers in the 1950s

Thu, 03 Apr, 2025 at 06:00 pm

240 Museum Dr, Lansing, MI, United States, Michigan 48933 | Lansing

R.E. Olds Transportation Museum
Publisher/HostR.E. Olds Transportation Museum
Lecture - The UAW\u2019s Golden Age?: Looking Back at Autoworkers in the 1950s
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For the next installment in our lecture series, we will explore discoveries from an oral history project that focused on the experiences of ordinary Detroit-area autoworkers in the 1950s. Interviews led to the surprising discovery that, for autoworkers, the 1950s were a time of job instability and economic insecurity. The interviews also showed how autoworkers were complex, multidimensional people with a wide range of aspirations and concerns.
Daniel J. Clark is the author of multiple works on United States labor history, including “Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s”, which presents life history narratives of a number of these workers and this talk will offer some highlights.
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