TY - BOOK ID - 7691158 TI - Our union : UAW/CAW Local 27 from 1950-1990 PY - 2011 SN - 192683643X 9786613470560 128347056X 1926836448 9781926836447 9781283470568 9781926836454 1926836456 PB - Edmonton, [Alberta] : AU Press, DB - UniCat KW - Automobile industry workers -- Labor unions -- Canada -- History -- 20th century. KW - CAW-Canada. -- Local 27 -- History. KW - Labor union locals -- Ontario -- London -- History. KW - Labor union locals -- Social aspects -- Ontario -- London. KW - Labor unions -- Ontario -- London -- History. KW - Labor unions KW - Labor union locals KW - Automobile industry workers KW - Business & Economics KW - Labor & Workers' Economics KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - History. KW - CAW-Canada. KW - International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. KW - Auto workers KW - Automobile construction workers KW - Automobile workers KW - Local unions KW - Locals (Labor unions) KW - Union locals KW - Industrial unions KW - Labor, Organized KW - Labor organizations KW - Organized labor KW - Trade-unions KW - Unions, Labor KW - Unions, Trade KW - Working-men's associations KW - Automobile industry and trade KW - Labor movement KW - Societies KW - Central labor councils KW - Guilds KW - Syndicalism KW - CAW-Canada KW - International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. KW - International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. KW - E-books KW - Employees UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7691158 AB - The post-war period witnessed dramatic changes in the lives of working-class families. Wages rose, working hours were reduced, pension plans and state social security measures offered greater protection against unemployment, illness, and old age, the standard of living improved, and women and members of immigrant communities entered the labour market in growing numbers. Existing studies of the post-war period have focused above all on unions at the national and international levels, on the "post-war settlement," including the impact of Fordism, and on the chiefly economic issues surrounding collective bargaining, while relatively scant attention has been paid to the role of the union local in daily working-class experience. In Our Union, Jason Russell argues that the union local, as an institution of working-class organization, was a key agent for the Canadian working class as it sought to create a new place for itself in the decades following World War II. Using UAW/CAW Local 27, a broad-based union in London, Ontario, as a case study, he offers a ground-level look at union membership, including some of the social and political agendas that informed union activities. As he writes in the introduction, "This book is as much an outgrowth of years of rank-and-file union activism as it is the result of academic curiosity." Drawing on interviews with former members of UAW/CAW Local 27 as well as on archival sources, Russell offers a narrative that will speak not only to labour historians but to the people about whom they write. ER -