Talking Union

As an institutional, political,

        and cultural oral history of the struggle to unionize the River Rouge

        Plant near Detroit during the 1930s and 40s, this book affords us a rare

        insight into the difficulties of organizing a union in the face of the

        then anti-union Ford Motor Company. Against a backdrop of the 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.