Tales from the Reuther Library
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Detroit Industry and ‘The Mural’
Dr. Jay Cephas considers two Depression-era murals in Detroit and their contrasting messaging about workers, labor, and power. Diego Rivera’s famed...
Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit
Dr. Say Burgin explains that contrary to the common belief that white activists were purged from the Black freedom movement in the mid-1960 and 1970s,...
Hillbilly Highway: Charting White Migration from Appalachia to the Industrial Midwest
Dr. Max Fraser shares the often overlooked story of the “hillbilly highway,” the route nearly eight million poor, rural, white Americans took in...
Betty Friedan’s Labor Roots
Rachel Shteir shares how Betty Friedan’s early experience as a labor reporter for the Federated Press informed her later work as a famed women’s...
The UAW’s Southern Gamble in Foreign-Owned Factories
Dr. Stephen Silvia explains how the UAW built a cooperative relationship with workers’ councils and unions at foreign automotive companies, but has...
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