The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469613857ISBN-10:1469613859UPC:9781469613857Book Category:Social Science, Political Science, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Labor & Industrial Relations, IndustriesBook Topic:American, Automobile IndustrySize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCSTVB1QP9
The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford
In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford, Beth Tompkins Bates explains how black Detroiters, newly arrived from the South, seized the economic opportunities offered by Ford in the hope of...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469613857ISBN-10:1469613859UPC:9781469613857Book Category:Social Science, Political Science, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Labor & Industrial Relations, IndustriesBook Topic:American, Automobile IndustrySize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCSTVB1QP9
Beth Tompkins Bates is professor emerita at Wayne State University and author of Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945.
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