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Title: UAW Research Department Collection - Part 2

Type: Records

Dates: 1939-1985

Size: 121 linear feet

ID#:  350-uaw

OCLC:

©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs

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SCOPE & CONTENTS

Ø     Subjects

Ø     Correspondents

Ø     Transferred

Ø     Related Collections

CONTENTS

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Scope & Contents

The papers in Part 2 of the UAW Research Department Collection consist primarily of correspondence and subject reference files.  Much of the correspondence is related to contract negotiations; a smaller amount deals with the research queries of scholars and journalists.  The subject files cover a variety of topics, but the largest portion contains newspaper clippings and financial reports profiling a number of manufacturing companies.

Subjects

Aerospace industries--United States

Automation

Automobile industry and trade--Labor productivity

Automobile industry and trade--Law and legislation--United States

Automobiles, Foreign--Law and legislation--United States

David Beck

Chrysler Corporation

Collective bargaining--Aerospace industry--United States

Collective bargaining--Automobile industry and trade

Ford Motor Company

General Electric Company

General Motors Corporation

International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America

International Metalworkers’ Federation

Labor supply--Effect of technological innovations on

Open and closed shop--Law and legislation--United States

Plant shutdowns

Profit-sharing plans

Schoolcraft Gardens Housing Cooperative

Supplemental unemployment benefits

Trade adjustment assistance--Law and legislation--United States

United States. Laws, statutes, etc. Trade Act of 1974

Wage incentive plans

Wages--Annual wage

Correspondents

George Addes

Irving Bluestone

Jack Conway

Douglas Fraser

Larry Gettlinger

Richard Gosser

Arthur Kornhauser

John Livingston

Emil Mazey

C. Wright Mills

Victor Reuther

Walter Reuther

Ralph Showalter

George L-P. Weaver

Leonard Woodcock

Transferred

A large number of local union newspapers and contracts have been placed in the Archives Library.

Related Collections

UAW holdings

Contents

121 Storage Boxes

Series I, Correspondence and General Files, 1939-84, Boxes 1-57 & 122, To Series

Series II, Company Profiles, 1936-85, Boxes 58-121 & 123,  To Series

Index—see Series above [Large Files]

            PLEASE NOTE:  Folders are computer-arranged alphabetically within each series in this finding aid, but may actually be dispersed throughout several boxes in the collection.  Note carefully the box number for each folder heading.

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