Midnight in Vehicle City

Revives the story of the most significant labor dispute in American history that helped usher in national prosperity with the rust belt as its industrial engine.The tumultuous Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936 to 1937 symbolized the start of the United Auto Workers and set the standard for wages in every industry. This historic transformation of the economic structure in the U.S. ultimately established the golden age of the American middle class. The causes for which the strikers sat downcollective bargaining, secure retirement, better wagesenjoyed a half-century of success. But now, the middle class is diminishing in the 21st century and economic inequality is at its highest since the New Deal If we want to learn how to revive it, we need to look at how it started in the first place. Midnight in Vehicle City is the dramatic story of how workingmen defeated a major industrial powerGeneral Motors, the largest corporation in the world....