Automation

Nat Ganley Papers

drice — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:43:29 -0500

Mr. Ganley was active in the early days of the UAW and served in several capacities with Local 155, the tool and die local for the east side of Detroit. He was also active in the Communist Party of Michigan, serving for a time as editor of the Michigan Worker. In 1954 he was convicted of violation of the Smith Act, but his conviction was later overruled by higher courts. Transcripts, clippings, briefs, notes, and other items cover these phases of Mr. Ganley's life. Other topics include the no strike pledge, postwar reconversion, political action, civil rights, automation, and the guaranteed annual wage. The collection also has about 60 books and over 600 pamphlets on socialism and communism.

Ruth Milkman Papers

drice — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:40:44 -0400

Ruth Milkman (1954-) is a professor of sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and the academic director at the Joseph F. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies. Her professional focus is labor and labor movements, and she has published on a variety of topics revolving around work and organized labor in the United States. She received her B.A. from Brown University and her M.A. from the University of California, Berkley. Milkman’s early research focused on women workers during the economic and war crisis of the 1930s and 1940s. Her next period of research focused on the restructuring of the U.S. automobile industry and its impact on its workers and unions. She also studied Japanese-owned factories in California at this time. Her studies now focus on low wage immigrant workers, including their working conditions and labor organizations.

The Ruth Milkman Papers are predominantly research materials for her published reports on the employee buyouts at the GM Linden Plant in New Jersey. Included are various articles, studies, clippings, and UAW published materials she used in her research. Of particular note are Milkman’s interviews with plant workers, which were critical to her reports on the GM Linden Plant.

Ted F. Silvey Papers

drice — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:21:11 -0500

Ted Silvey began in the printer's trade before moving up the ranks in the Ohio Congress of Industrial Organizations and joining the national CIO Speakers Bureau in 1944. In that capacity, he lectured at labor union schools, union meetings and conferences, and non-union gatherings. His papers document his public speaking for the CIO as well as his writings, especially those on automation, computer, and industrial technology.

UAW Borg-Warner Department Records

gstrassel — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 11:02:33 -0500

A prominent American automotive components and parts supplier, Borg-Warner (later rebranded as BorgWarner) had factories across the US and Canada represented by the UAW. The UAW Borg-Warner Department Records are the documents of the office within the UAW’s international headquarters that oversaw the union’s operations at Borg-Warner plants. These records consist of correspondence with the union locals representing Borg-Warner employees, arbitration proceedings, strike pamphlets, collective bargaining agreements with Borg-Warner subsidiaries, and much more.

UAW Foundry and Forge Departments Records

drice — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:50:14 -0500

African-American autoworkers; automation; Detroit Labor Action Committee; National Safety Council; South African politics and economy; UAW Eaton Council; health and safety issues

Norbert Wiener Papers

abarker — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:01:36 -0400

The author of "Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine," mathematician Norbert Wiener pioneered the science of communication and control theory known as cybernetics. Mr. Wiener’s papers consist of copies of correspondence with Walter Reuther regarding issues of labor and automated manufacturing.

(11372) UAW, Organizing Flier, Dodge, Hamtramck, Michigan, 1936

eclemens — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:59:44 -0400

An organizing leaflet distributed to auto workers by the Dodge Main local of the UAW. The event promises to address the issue of “Speed Up” practices and has Leo Krzycki, organizer for the CIO, listed as the main speaker and will be held at 8944 Jos. Campau, Hamtramck, Michigan.

[Podcast] Labor’s End: Automation’s Failed Promise of Freedom

teller — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 16:04:28 -0400

Dr. Jason Resnikoff explains that the rise of automation in the mid-20th century workplace was heralded as a way to free workers from manual labor, but resulted instead in the intensification of human labor and the degradation of workers’ protections and powers. Resnikoff is a core lecturer in the History Department at Columbia University and author of Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work. read more »