Days Gone Forever: Women’s Role in the 1936-37 Flint Sit-Down Strike and its Influence on the United Auto Workers Union

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Abstract: This senior thesis discusses women’s role in the 1936-37 Flint sit-down strike, long seen as one of the pivotal events in bringing unionization to the nation’s automotive industry. It argues that women’s experiences during the strike and contributions to its success resulted in fundamental structural change in the United Auto Workers (UAW) union in subsequent years.

Subject	International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO)
Subject	General Motors Corporation Sit-Down Strike (1936-1937)
Subject	General Motors Company
Subject	Labor movement
Subject	Dollinger, Genora Johnson
Subject	Jeffrey, Mildred, 1911-2004
Subject	Kraus, Dorothy
Subject	Reuther, Victor G. (Victor George), 1912-2004
Subject	Martin, Warren Homer, 1902-1968
Subject	Strikes and lockouts
Subject	Women > Employment
Genre	Text
Genre	Thesis

DOI	https://doi.org/10.25740/fm832rb0277
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/fm832rb0277

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Preferred citation: Spaeth, E. (2022). Days Gone Forever: Women’s Role in the 1936-37 Flint Sit-Down Strike and its Influence on the United Auto Workers Union. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/fm832rb0277

Undergraduate Honors Theses, Department of History, Stanford University

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