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The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford by Beth Tompkins Bates
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- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2014-02-01
- Pages
- 360
- ISBN
- 1469613859
- Book Title
- Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Features
- New Edition
- Genre
- Business & Economics, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Industries / Automobile Industry, United States / 20th Century, Emigration & Immigration, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Sociology / Urban
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 360 Pages
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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 gaining greater economic security. As these workers came to realize that Ford's anti-union "American Plan" did not allow them full access to the American Dream, their loyalty eroded, and they sought empowerment by pursuing a broad activist agenda. This, in turn, led them to play a pivotal role in the United Auto Workers' challenge to Ford's interests. In order to fully understand this complex shift, Bates traces allegiances among Detroit's African American community as reflected in its opposition to the Ku Klux Klan, challenges to unfair housing practices, and demands for increased and effective political participation. This groundbreaking history demonstrates how by World War II Henry Ford and his company had helped kindle the civil rights movement in Detroit without intending to do so.
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Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
1469613859
ISBN-13
9781469613857
eBay Product ID (ePID)
172851992
Product Key Features
Book Title
Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
New Edition
Topic
Industries / Automobile Industry, United States / 20th Century, Emigration & Immigration, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Business & Economics, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F574.D49n428 2012
Edition Description
New Edition
Reviews
"Offers a more realistic view of the tensions that existed within the union . . . [and] highlights the role Black organizers played in the UAW drive at Ford."-- Against the Current, "A detailed and highly readable history of Ford's industrial goals, his controlling social vision for his workers, and his brutal response to unionization."-- TriQuarterly, "An engaging book, lucidly presented and approachable to anyone with a curious mind."--SpeedReaders.info, [This] very readable study will be of enormous interest to historians of the urban and industrial Midwest, to scholars interested in racial formation in the region, and to those who study African American experiences.-- Middle West Review, Combines the broader political, social and economic life of Detroit with the experiences endured at the Ford Motor Company, as African Americans quickened their pace on the long and seemingly never ending march, to paraphrase Martin Luther King Junior, to be treated according to the content of their characters rather than the colour of their skins.-- Labour History, Black Detroit includes some remarkable and complicated stories [that explore] changing attitudes and realities within the city in a masterful manner. . . . It is an important addition to the Detroit Story.-- American Historical Review, Beth Tompkins Bates delves further back than others have into the 1920s and extends her critical eye to community formation and the political activities of Detroit's blacks, many of whom were in the first wave of the Great Migration.-- Historian, "In this book, Beth Bates offers a strikingly original account of the rise of what she calls 'civil rights unionism' in Detroit. Beginning with Henry Ford's forward-looking decision to open industrial jobs to black workers, she traces the making of the city's black community, the impact of the Great Depression, and the crosscurrents of politics that culminated in black adherence to the United Auto Workers union. Deeply researched and clearly written, this is a major contribution to twentieth-century American history."--Eric Foner, Columbia University, A detailed and highly readable history of Ford's industrial goals, his controlling social vision for his workers, and his brutal response to unionization.-- TriQuarterly, "Beth Tompkins Bates delves further back than others have into the 1920s and extends her critical eye to community formation and the political activities of Detroit's blacks, many of whom were in the first wave of the Great Migration."-- Historian, "Combines the broader political, social and economic life of Detroit with the experiences endured at the Ford Motor Company, as African Americans quickened their pace on the long and seemingly never ending march, to paraphrase Martin Luther King Junior, to be treated according to the content of their characters rather than the colour of their skins."-- Labour History, An engaging book, lucidly presented and approachable to anyone with a curious mind.--SpeedReaders.info, " Black Detroit includes some remarkable and complicated stories [that explore] changing attitudes and realities within the city in a masterful manner. . . . It is an important addition to the Detroit Story."-- American Historical Review, Offers a more realistic view of the tensions that existed within the union . . . [and] highlights the role Black organizers played in the UAW drive at Ford.-- Against the Current, Combines the broader political, social and economic life of Detroit with the experiences endured at the Ford Motor Company, as African Americans quickened their pace on the long and seemingly never ending march, to paraphrase Martin Luther King Junior, t|9781469613857|, ""Bates moves beyond shopfloor politics and traditional labor history to explore the complex relationship between Ford Motor Company and its migrant African American employees. She challenges the image of black Detroit as a pliant and politically quiescent community and posits instead that the labor and work-oriented issues they faced were central to early civil rights activism.--Steven Reich, James Madison University
Copyright Date
2014
Lccn
2012-007161
Dewey Decimal
305.896/077434
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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