HeyJaredTales from the Reuther Library
Stories on labor history, Detroit, and Wayne State University
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Organizing Associational Power: A Strikers’ Inquiry Into the 2022 UAW Strike Against the University of California (opens the original)
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Sociologists Thomas Gepts and Sarah Mason, PhD, discuss the six-week strike in 2022 of 48,000 UAW-represented academic workers across all 10 University of California campuses, explaining how differing strategies and organizing tactics employed at each campus yielded contrary results: at UC Berkeley, academic workers voted largely in favor of the new contract; at UC Santa Cruz they voted largely against. Mason and Gepts share their research demonstrating how differences in power resources at each
Downriver Detroit: The Working Class, the Environment, and the Bonds of Place (opens the original)
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Dr. Lisa Fine explains how the working class, local unions, and sportsman’s organization collaborated throughout the twentieth century to preserve the ecosystems and waterways located Downriver, a collection of working class industrial, exurban, and rural communities south of Detroit along the Detroit River. Fine is a professor of history at Michigan State University and author of Downriver Detroit: The Working Class, the Environment, and the Bonds of Place . Related Resources: Downriver Detroit
Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity (opens the original)
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Dr. Cedric De Leon explains how, from the founding of the African Blood Brotherhood in 1919 through the 1963 March on Washington, Black workers linked racial justice to economic justice, challenging the American labor movement to become more racially inclusive in its fight for workers’ rights. De Leon is Professor of Sociology and Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity . Related Resources:
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