Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in DetroitSupported by The Walter and May Reuther Memorial Fund Previously published by Basic Books as The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor''Management has no divine rights.''--Walter Reuther ''A splendid biography of America's most creative and commanding labor leader with an illuminating diagnosis of the ...... |
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Page 61 - Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me— and I welcome their hatred.
Page 328 - British intellectual who was in this respect typical of his class and generation, smugly asserted in 1945 that "nobody in Europe believes in the American way of life — that is, in private enterprise; or rather those who believe in it are a defeated party and a party which seems to have no more future than the Jacobites in England after...
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Page 206 - ... firmly in the CIO, were in control of some unions, and were threatening to capture the UAW. Although not a Communist. Frankensteen had cooperated with them and was considered a fellow traveler. In the UAW itself, the supporters of Reuther, who had fallen out with Frankensteen in 1943, were singing: Who are the boys who take their orders Straight from the office of Joe Staleen? No one else but the gruesome twosome George F. Addes and Frankensteen.1 In a city of rundown services and facilities,...
Page 142 - In addition, the products to be manufactured, the location of plants, the schedules of production, the assignment of work, the methods, processes, and means of manufacturing are solely and exclusively the responsibility of the Corporation.
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Page 385 - We are now involved in a serious revolution. This nation is still a place of cheap political leaders who build their careers on immoral compromises and ally themselves with open forms of political, economic and social exploitation. What political leader here can stand up and say, "My party is the party of principles"?
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| Title | Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit |
| Author | Nelson Lichtenstein |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 025206626X, 9780252066269 |
| Length | 575 pages |
| Subjects | › Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations |
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