Interviews by Author
Recordings and transcripts are located in the Metropolitan Detroit Autoworkers Oral History Collection, Walter Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University.
Agorgianitis, Tom. Pontiac, Michigan, January 21, 2002.
Arnold, Edith. Pontiac, Michigan, November 7, 2003.
Bailey, Nora Kay. Pontiac, Michigan, August 8, 2003.
Beaudry, Margaret. Waterford, Michigan, June 24, 2002.
Bowen, Bob. Ypsilanti, Michigan, August 25, 2000, and August 28, 2000.
Brown, Elwin. Pontiac, Michigan, August 7, 2003.
Coleman, Les. Ypsilanti, Michigan, August 29, 2000.
Franklin, James. Ypsilanti, Michigan, September 22, 2000.
Hester, Donald K., Sr. Pontiac, Michigan, August 12, 2003.
Ish, Paul. Pontiac, Michigan, June 18, 2002.
Johnson, Arthur E. (Gene). Pontiac, Michigan, July 17, 2002.
Liles, Ernie. Sterling Heights, Michigan, May 27, 2003.
McGuire, James. Ypsilanti, Michigan, August 24, 2000.
Neal, Emerald. Ypsilanti, Michigan, August 21, 2000.
Neumann, Katie. Shelby Township, Michigan, March 18, 2002.
Nowak, Thomas. Ypsilanti, Michigan, September 20, 2000.
Rogers, Evelyn. Pontiac, Michigan, June 21, 2002.
Ross, Paul. Pontiac, Michigan, May 20, 2003.
Sackle, Dorothy. Westland, Michigan, June 14, 2002.
Scott, L. J. Detroit, Michigan, October 27, 2003.
Weber, Ambrose (Bud). Pontiac, Michigan, May 15, 2003.
Woods, Joe, Jr. Pontiac, Michigan, June 28, 2002, and March 2, 2004.
Newspapers, Periodicals, Pamphlets, and Government Documents
Census of Population: 1950, vol. 2: Characteristics of the Population, part 22, Michigan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952.
Detroit Free Press, 1945–1960
Detroit News, 1953–1958
Ford Facts Collection, Walter Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University.
Fortune, 1948–1959
Michigan Chronicle, 1949–1959
National Religion and Labor Foundation. “Religion and Labor: Walking Together,” New Haven, Connecticut, ca. 1950.
Books and Articles
Asher, Robert, and Ronald Edsworth, eds. Autowork. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
Babson, Steve, et al. Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1986.
Barnard, John. American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers during the Reuther Years, 1935–1970. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004.
Berger, Bennett. Working-Class Suburb: A Study of Auto Workers in Suburbia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.
Berry, Chad. Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Boyle, Kevin. “The Kiss: Racial and Gender Conflict in a 1950s Automobile Factory.” Journal of American History 84, no. 2 (1997): 496–523.
———. The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945–1968. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Chinoy, Ely. Automobile Workers and the American Dream, 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. (Originally published by Doubleday in 1955.)
Cobble, Dorothy Sue. The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. New York: Vintage Books, 2003.
Cowie, Jefferson. The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.
Cutler, Jonathan. Labor’s Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004.
Edwards, Charles E. Dynamics of the United States Automobile Industry. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1965.
Fallows, James. Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy. New York: Pantheon Books, 1996.
Fine, Lisa. “Rights of Men, Rites of Passage: Hunting and Masculinity at Reo Motors of Lansing, Michigan, 1945–1975.” Journal of Social History (Summer 2000): 805–23.
———. The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004.
Flink, James J. The Automobile Age. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1988.
Friedman, Tami J. “‘Acute Depression … in … the Age of Plenty’: Capital Migration, Economic Dislocation, and the Missing ‘Social Contract’ of the 1950s.” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 8, no. 4 (2011): 89–113.
Frisch, Michael. A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.
Gabin, Nancy. Feminism in the Labor Movement: Women and the United Auto Workers, 1935–1975. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Gordon, Robert J. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.
Grele, Ronald. Envelopes of Sound: Six Practitioners Discuss the Method, Theory, and Practice of Oral History and Oral Testimony. Chicago: Precedent Publishing, 1975.
Hyman, Louis. Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.
Jefferys, Steve. Management and Managed: Fifty Years of Crisis at Chrysler. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Levinson, Marc. An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy. New York: Basic Books, 2016.
Lewis-Colman, David M. Race against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.
Lichtenstein, Nelson. Labor’s War at Home: The CIO in World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
———. The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor. New York: Basic Books, 1995.
Lichtenstein, Nelson, and Stephen Meyer, eds. On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Maraniss, David. Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Marquart, Frank. An Auto Worker’s Journal: The UAW from Crusade to One-Party Union. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1975.
Metzgar, Jack. Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000.
Meyer, Stephen. The Five Dollar Day: Labor Management and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company, 1908–1921. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981.
———. Manhood on the Line: Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016.
———. “Work, Play, and Power: Masculine Culture on the Automotive Shop Floor, 1930–1960,” Men and Masculinities 2, no. 2 (1999): 115–34.
Mindich, David T. Z. Just the Facts: How “Objectivity” Came to Define American Journalism. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
Patai, Daphne, and Sherna Berger Gluck, eds. Women’s Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Pettengill, Ryan. “Fair Play in Bowling: Sport, Civil Rights, and the UAW Culture of Inclusion, 1936–1950,” Journal of Social History 52, no. 4 (Summer 2018).
Portelli, Alessandro. The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.
———. They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Rae, John B. The American Automobile Industry. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984.
Rubenstein, James M. Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Schudson, Michael. Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers. New York: Basic Books, 1978.
Sugrue, Thomas. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Swados, Harvey. “The Myth of the Happy Worker.” The Nation (August 17, 1957): 65–66.
Thompson, Paul. The Voice of the Past: Oral History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Walker, Charles R., and Robert H. Guest. The Man on the Assembly Line. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1952.
Weales, Gerald. “Small-Town Detroit: Motor City on the Move.” Commentary (September 1, 1956). www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/small-town-detroitmotor-city-on-the-move.
White, Lawrence J. The Automobile Industry since 1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971.
Widick, B. J. Auto Work and Its Discontents. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.
Zieger, Robert. The CIO, 1935–1955. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.