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  • "Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights"

    Michigan, 1948-1968

    by Sidney Fine ...
    Series series Great Lakes Books
    Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights documents an important shift in state level policy to make clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced all people.Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments ... Read more

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  • "Without Blare of Trumpets"

    Walter Drew, The National Erectors' Association, and the Open Shop Movement, 1903-1957

    by Sidney Fine ...
    "Without Blare of Trumpets" provides a fresh look at the twentieth-century open shop movement. It reveals the central role played in that movement by the National Erectors' Association and by its commissioner, Walter Drew. Fine presents an absorbing account of the union-organized dynamiting campaign and illuminates the critical behind-the-scenes part played by Drew in one of the greatest labor ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • Frank Murphy

    The Detroit Years

    by Sidney Fine ...
    The second son of a close-knit Irish-American family, a charismatic politician who championed the underdog yet enjoyed the company of the rich, Frank Murphy was for thirty years an influential figure on the American scene. As Recorder’s Court judge, mayor of Detroit during the Great Depression, governor-general of and high commissioner to the Philippines, governor of Michigan, United States ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Sit-Down

    The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937

    by Sidney Fine ...
    Series series Class : Culture
    In this classic study, Sidney Fine portrays the dramatic events of the 1936–37 Flint Sit-down Strike against General Motors, which catapulted the UAW into prominence and touched off a wave of sit-down strikes across the United States. Basing his account on an impressive variety of manuscript sources, Fine analyzes the strategy and tactics of GM and the UAW, describes the life of the workers in the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD