Women Workers in World War Ii: Michigan as a Test Case

The Death of the “Old Labor Movement” and the Birth of the New: Revitalizing U.S. Labor in the Early 21st Century

“…Foremost books and articles of a number of the CIO's affiliated unions have appeared including those on the United Auto Workers (Barnard 1983, 2004; Friedlander 1975; Halpern 1988; Lichtenstein 1995), the United Electrical Workers (Filipelli & McColloch 1995; Schatz 1983), the United Rubber Workers (Nelson 1988b), the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (Kimeldorf 1988; Nelson 1988a), the United Steelworkers (Brody 1987; McColloch 1987), the Transport Workers (Freeman 1989), the Farm Equipment Workers (Devinatz 1996a; Gilpin 1989; Rosswurm and Gilpin 1986) and the United Packinghouse Workers (Halpern 1997; Horowitz 1997). For books discussing the CIO's relationship to African‐American workers, see Harris (1982), Meier and Rudwick (1979) and Foner (1974) while the federation's relationship with women workers is discussed in Ruiz (1987), Strom (1983), Gabin (1982), Anderson (1982) and Clive (1979). Lastly, Lynd's (1996) edited book contends that the CIO's conservative bureaucracy prevented the emergence of an “alternative unionism” that was more innately democratic and radical during the 1930s' burst of U.S. labor militancy.…”