Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class

"The story of the forty-four-day Flint Sit Down Strike of 1936-37, which led to the recognition of the United Auto Workers, the union whose wages and benefits set the standard for the 20th Century American middle class"--

Author: Edward McClelland
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 02/01/2022
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780807055489
ISBN10: 0807055484
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
- History | United States | 20th Century
- Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity

About the Author
Edward McClelland is a journalist, a historian, and an author born and raised in Lansing, Michigan. His work has been published in numerous places, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Chicago Reader, and on Salon and Slate. He is the author of several books, including Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President, Nothin' but Blue Skies: The Heyday, Hard Times and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland, and How to Speak Midwestern. Connect with him online at edwardmcclelland.com and @TedMcClelland on Twitter.