About the Book
An institutional, political, and cultural oral history of the struggle to unionize the River Rouge Plant near Detroit during the 1930s and 40s, Talking Union affords rare insight into the difficulties of organizing labor in the face of the then- antiunion Ford Motor Company. Against a backdrop of the Great Depression and entrenched racism, history was made by courageous individuals whose rich,eloquent stories illuminate the character and views of others like them across the nation, from all backgrounds: left, right, and center; black and white; native and foreign born; Jew and gentile. About the Author
Judith Stepan-Norris is a research professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Maurice Zeitlin is a distinguished research professor at UCLA.They are the coauthors of Left Out: Reds and America’s Industrial Unions.