File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_1997/aut-op-sy.9712, message 17


From: "Geoffrey J McDonald" <geosophia-AT-prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: AUT: critical sources on UAW
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 11:46:11 -0800


Stefan,
You must be referring to the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. The
best book on them is Detroit: I Do Mind Dying by Dan Georgakas and Marvin
Surkin; more academic is Class, Race and Worker Insurgency by James
Geschwender.

Geoff
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> From: Stefan Wray <sjw210-AT-is8.nyu.edu>
> To: aut-op-sy-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
> Subject: Re: AUT: critical sources on UAW
> Date: Sunday, December 07, 1997 10:51 AM
> 
> Thank you Geoff.
> 
> My understanding is that there were Black UAW members in and around
Detroit
> in the 70s who engaged in more radical projects than what the UAW would
> condone, and that there is a book about this. Anyone know the title? It
> doesn't seem like it is one of these below.
> 
> - Stefan
> 
> 
> At 09:55 AM 12/7/97 -0800, you wrote:
> >	Stepfan asked for critical sources on the UAW. William Serrin's (out of
> >print) The Company and the Union is good; also Nelson Lichtenstein's bio
of
> >Walter Reuther, The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit, has some very useful
> >info -- if you subtract the hagiographic nonsense.
> >
> >Geoff McDonald
> >
> >
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> >
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