United Auto Workers Picketing the Ford Rouge River Plant, Dearborn, Michigan, 1941

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Artifact Overview

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 Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1941

Place of Creation

Location

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