Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town |
 | Author: Steve Babson
Publisher: Adama Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 3111145
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 246
ISBN: 0915361019
Dewey Decimal Number: 331.880977434
EAN: 9780915361014
ASIN: 0915361019
Publication Date: September 1984
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An illustrated history of labor organization in Detroit.
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Labor History in Motown May 23, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Babson's book looks at labor movement history in Detroit as a microcosm of American history as a whole. The field is one not usually covered by historians, and the nearness in time of the events allow for the use of living sources, both of which contribute to make the telling different and authentic. I liked the way that Babson connected events in Detroit with the big picture, as with the sidebar on the Debs campaign for President. The feeling that he conveys of those outdoor Socialist rallies is like that of a tent revival, a fervor generally absent from the politics on the left today. Detroit's leadership in American industrialism for most of the century now ending give the story of Labor's rise national importance, but natives will probably enjoy the book more, given it's intimate portrait of familiar places and faces from our recent past.
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