United Auto Workers Picketing the Ford Rouge River Plant, Dearborn, Michigan, 1941
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The workers who manufactured and bought cars organized into labor unions to better their working conditions. The United Auto Workers, founded in 1935, quickly organized the auto industry. In this photograph, workers picket Ford Motor Company -- the last major automaker to unionize -- during a 1941 strike.
The workers who manufactured and bought cars organized into labor unions to better their working conditions. The United Auto Workers, founded in 1935, quickly organized the auto industry. In this photograph, workers picket Ford Motor Company -- the last major automaker to unionize -- during a 1941 strike.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1941
Keywords
United States, Michigan, Dearborn
International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO)
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.P.O.4622
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8.25 in
Width: 10 in
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