Lecture - The UAW’s Golden Age?: Looking Back at Autoworkers in the 1950s

This talk will explore discoveries from an oral history project that focused on the experiences of ordinary Detroit-area autoworkers in the 1950s. Interviews found that the 1950s were a time of job instability and economic insecurity for autoworkers and showed how autoworkers were complex people with a wide range of aspirations and concerns.
Daniel J. Clark is the author of “Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s”, which presents life history narratives of workers.