The AFL-CIO

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Weight: 137 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0745-4880
• DOI: 10.1002/mare.4080221208

✦ Synopsis

Amid unfinished autos, workers lounge on car seats at a General Motors

plant during the Flint sit-down strike in 1937. (Photo provided by the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State Uniuersity.)

guaranteed-wage plan that assured continuing payments to workers even during layoffs.