A slacker's paradise: The fight for 30 hours work at 40 hours' pay in the United Automobile Workers, 1941-1966.

Title: A slacker's paradise: The fight for 30 hours work at 40 hours' pay in the United Automobile Workers, 1941-1966.
Identifier: AAI9830698
identifier: 9830698
Creator: Cutler, Jonathan Charles.
Contributor: Adviser: Stanley Aronowitz
Date: 1998
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations | Economics, History | History, United States
Abstract: This study demonstrates the persistence, after the Great Depression, of support among rank-and-file workers within organized labor for the shorter work week. Some scholars have suggested that the promise of economic prosperity which arrived with the advent of World War II combined with the desire for higher wages and more consumer goods to undermine support for a shorter work week. Furthermore, these scholars suggest that any renewal support for a shorter work week will await the rejection of consumerism among American workers.;In contrast to these scholars, the findings of this study suggest that support for a shorter work week persisted beyond the Depression years and that the failure within organized labor to fight for and win the shorter work week was a result of the unresponsiveness of organized labor in relation to persistent rank-and-file support for a shorter work week.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.

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