Reuther /
Frank Cormier and William J. Eaton.
- Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, Inc., c1970
- vii, 475 pages : black and white illustrations and portraits ; 23 cm.
A credo from an interview with Walter P. Reuther serves as a preface to this text.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-434) and index.
Credo -- One. Father and son -- Two. The die leader -- Three. Europe 1933 -- Four. Russian adventure -- Five. Open shop town -- Six. Reuther organizes -- Seven. Flint -- Eight. Bloody Rouge -- Nine. The leaping parson -- Ten. Letter from Gorki -- Eleven. Martin's fall -- Twelve. Renaissance -- Thirteen. Prelude to war -- Fourteen. 500 planes a day -- Fifteen. The war years -- Sixteen. On strike at GM -- Seventeen. Battle of the boardwalk -- Eighteen. Purge -- Nineteen. Shotguns and dynamite -- Twenty. Politics -- Twenty-one. Bargaining pioneer -- Twenty-two. The visionary -- Twenty-three. Road to merger -- Twenty-four. The annual wage -- Twenty-five. Reuther embattled -- Twenty-six. The world stage -- Twenty-seven. New frontier -- Twenty-eight. The great society -- Twenty-nine. The changing union -- Thirty. Reuther v. Meany -- Thirty-one. Finale.
"There can be no doubt that this biography of Walter P. Reuther, late President of the United Auto Workers, is the most complete and searching examination of this leading and controversial figure of the contemporary American labor movement. The work of the two men, both prominent and accomplished journalists, [Mr. Cormier and Mr. Eaton], is, needless to say extremely well written and presents the reader with a comprehensive picture of the life and career of Walter Reuther. The authors are fully cognizant of the influences, both human and ideological, which shaped Reuther's philosophy of unionism and his life style. They accurately record the transformation of auto worker into labor statesman, the pressures of the early and bitter organizing struggles, the victorious 'battle of Detroit,' and the conflicts within the United Auto Workers, the C.I.O., and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. that the man had to live with, day in and day out, throughout his lengthy service to his union and to American labor in general." - From Business History Review
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Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970.
International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO)
Automobile industry and trade--History Automobile industry and trade--United States Labor unions--United States Labor leaders--United States Automobile industry workers--Labor unions--History--United States