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Sit-Down Book Report

Sit-down is a historical non-fiction book. It depicts the events of the
1936-1937 strike at General Motors plants in Flint and around the country.
The author of this book is Sidney Fine. In this report you will learn what I
learned about the struggle between Corporations and the beginning of
unionization.
Sit-down is about the General Motors Sit-down strike of 1936-1937.
This strike was mainly about the right for workers to represent themselves
through collective bargaining. The union supporters went through a long,
inhumane and bloody fight. hey finally won the fight on February, 11 1937.
On this day General Motors recognized the United Auto Workers as the
collective-bargaining agency ...

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Murphy’s role was to mediate, but he was on General Motors side.
He insisted that the sit-downers get basic human right’s such as food, heat,
and water. Murphy also controlled the police and National Guard. They shot
and killed several strikers. After it was all over Martin and the United Auto
workers emerged victorious.
The strike started in Flint on December 30,1936. The GM factories
were described as a mess, because of the lack of sanitation. There was also
spare parts and other miscellaneous weapons used against the cops in the
Battle of the Running Bulls laying around in Flint factories everywhere. In
fact the conditions in the factories were all out nasty. I would not want to live
there for a month and a half. On February 11 1937 GM and the U.A.W.
struck a deal at the state capital building in Lansing .
This stories Characteristics are kind of strange because it does
not go in chronological order. It starts out with The Battle of the Running
Bulls. Which is ...

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Added: 11/7/2006 11:07:31 AM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Free Paper
Words: 513
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