The Origins of the United Automobile Workers, 1933-1935

1958 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney Fine
Keyword(s):  
Automobile Industry ◽  
International Union ◽  
United Automobile Workers

On August 26, 1935, delegates from sixty-five American Federationof Labor locals in the automobile industry gathered in Detroit to launch the International Union, United Automobile Workers of America. Although many of the delegates thought that the A.F. of L. had unnecessarily delayed the convocation of this convention, they were no doubt mindful of the fact that an international was being formed in an industry where only a little more than two years previously unionism had been conspicuous primarily because of its absence.

Rosie the Riveter Revisited

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Milkman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Women Workers ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
World War ◽  
Sexual Division ◽  
Sexual Division Of Labor ◽  
United Automobile Workers ◽  
Hiring Policies

This chapter examines the ways in which employers contributed to the historical formation of the sexual division of labor and to patterns of job segregation by gender. It begins with a discussion of the formation of the sexual division of labor in the automobile industry prior to World War II. It then considers the logic of Fordism and the lack of incentive to retain or hire women workers after the war, with particular emphasis on how hiring policies fostered the gender division of labor. It shows that labor unions, and more specifically the United Automobile Workers (UAW), collaborated with management in purging women from the auto industry, with the latter playing the far more powerful role owing to its preference for male workers.

Reflections on Americanism

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-102
Author(s):  
Gary Gerstle
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Working Class ◽  
New England ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Industry Studies ◽  
United Automobile Workers ◽  
Single Industry

Charles Williams's essay on the nature of progressive Americanism takes me back to where my quest to understand this phenomenon began: the labor movement of the 1930s. The broad nature and intensity of working-class rebellion and mobilization during the Depression decade once led the historian Irving Bernstein to label this period, the “Turbulent Years.” I was part of a group of self-described “new labor historians” that set out to penetrate the mysteries of this movement and especially the consciousness of the workers who participated in it. Most of us undertook community or single industry studies, out of the conviction that the kind of in-depth investigations that such focused work allowed would yield fully realized portraits of working-class insurgencies and of the workplaces and communities out of which they emerged. I chose to explore a New England textile city while others opted to work on transit workers in New York City, dockworkers in West Coast port cities, electrical workers in Pittsburgh and Schenectady, teamsters in Minneapolis, and a broad range of industrial workers in Chicago. All of us, however, had one eye on the automobile industry in Detroit and its environs, for this industry had produced what became, arguably, the most successful, innovative, and progressive CIO union, the United Automobile Workers (UAW).

Effects of cooling rate on the mechanical properties of dual phase treated vanadium steels

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 220-221
Author(s):  
L.J. Chen ◽  
H.C. Cheng ◽  
J.R. Gong ◽  
J.G. Yang
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Cooling Rate ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Weight Percent ◽  
Low Alloy Steels ◽  
Dual Phase ◽  
Resource Requirement ◽  
Alloy Steels ◽  
Potential Weight

For fuel savings as well as energy and resource requirement, high strength low alloy steels (HSLA) are of particular interest to automobile industry because of the potential weight reduction which can be achieved by using thinner section of these steels to carry the same load and thus to improve the fuel mileage. Dual phase treatment has been utilized to obtain superior strength and ductility combinations compared to the HSLA of identical composition. Recently, cooling rate following heat treatment was found to be important to the tensile properties of the dual phase steels. In this paper, we report the results of the investigation of cooling rate on the microstructures and mechanical properties of several vanadium HSLA steels.The steels with composition (in weight percent) listed below were supplied by China Steel Corporation: 1. low V steel (0.11C, 0.65Si, 1.63Mn, 0.015P, 0.008S, 0.084Aℓ, 0.004V), 2. 0.059V steel (0.13C, 0.62S1, 1.59Mn, 0.012P, 0.008S, 0.065Aℓ, 0.059V), 3. 0.10V steel (0.11C, 0.58Si, 1.58Mn, 0.017P, 0.008S, 0.068Aℓ, 0.10V).

Research on Development Strategy for China’s Powerful Automobile Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Yang Dong ◽  
Yanhua Xu ◽  
Tianshu Pang ◽  
Peng Zou
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Automobile Industry

Financial Performance of Automobile Industry in India

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-68
Author(s):  
P. Sankaran P. Sankaran ◽  
◽  
Dr. C. Gounasegaran Dr. C. Gounasegaran ◽  
Dr. R. Azhagaiah Dr. R. Azhagaiah
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Automobile Industry

Vincent Ard and Lucile Pillot editors, 'Giants in the Landscape: Monumentality and Territories in the European Neolithic. Proceedings of the XV11 International Union of the Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences World Congress. Volume 3'

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-148
Author(s):  
Pamela Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
World Congress ◽  
International Union ◽  
Black And White ◽  
European Neolithic

Vincent Ard and Lucile Pillot eds, Giants in the Landscape: Monumentality and Territories in the European Neolithic. Proceedings of the XV11 International Union of the Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences World Congress. Edited by Volume 3 / Session A25d. Oxford, UK: Archaeopress (2016). Paperback, English, vi+94 pages; illustrated throughout in black and white. ISBN: 9781784912857. £26.00. Also available to download from Archaeopress Open Access.

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