Midnight in Vehicle City: Modern Lessons From the Flint Sit-Down Strike

Edward McClelland recounts the gripping details of the Flint sit-down strike, and considers what we can learn today from the strikers’ successful fight for shared prosperity in 1936-1937. McClelland is a journalist, historian, and author of Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Built the Middle Class. Related Collections: Flint Labor Records Genora and Sol Dollinger Papers Henry Kraus Papers Hy Fish Papers Joe Walton Papers Roy Reuther Oral History Victor G. Reuther Papers Wyndham Mortimer Papers Related Resources: Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Built the Middle Class Episode Credits Producers: Dan Golodner and Troy Eller English Interviewer: Dan Golodner Interviewee: Edward McClelland Music: Bart Bealmear