Lecture - The UAW’s Golden Age?: Looking Back at Autoworkers in the 1950s

Name: Lecture - The UAW’s Golden Age?: Looking Back at Autoworkers in the 1950s
Start: 2025-04-03T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 240 Museum Dr, Lansing, MI, United States, Michigan 48933

Schedule

Thu, 03 Apr, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

240 Museum Dr, Lansing, MI, United States, Michigan 48933 | Lansing, MI

For the next installment in our lecture series, we will explore discoveries from an oral history project that focused on the experiences of ordinary Detroit-area autoworkers in the 1950s. Interviews led to the surprising discovery that, for autoworkers, the 1950s were a time of job instability and economic insecurity. The interviews also showed how autoworkers were complex, multidimensional people with a wide range of aspirations and concerns.
Daniel J. Clark is the author of multiple works on United States labor history, including “Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s”, which presents life history narratives of a number of these workers and this talk will offer some highlights.