Working Detroit

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Babson recounts Detroit’s odyssey from a bulwark of the “open shop” to the nation’s foremost “union the city.” Through words and pictures, Working Detroit documents the events within the city’s ongoing struggle to build an industrial society that may be both prosperous and humane.

Babson begins his account in 1848 when Detroit has just entered the commercial era. He weaves the wider historical realties, such as Red Scare, World War, and economic depression into his account, tracing the ebb and drift of the working class activity and organization in Detroit – from the upward thrust of the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor within the 19th century, throughout the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the sitdown strike of the 1930s, to the civil rights and girls’s movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The book concludes with an examination of the current day crisis facing the labor movement.

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