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Destroying What the UAW Built
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| Contributor | Bob Sacamano |
| Last Edited | Bob Sacamano Dec 21, 2008 05:31pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In 1949, a pamphlet was published that argued that the American auto industry should pursue a different direction. Titled "A Small Car Named Desire," the pamphlet suggested that Detroit not put all its bets on bigness, that a substantial share of American consumers would welcome smaller cars that cost less and burned fuel more efficiently.
The pamphlet's author was the research department of the United Auto Workers.
By the standards of the postwar UAW, there was nothing exceptional about "A Small Car Named Desire." In its glory days, under the leadership of Walter Reuther, the UAW was the most farsighted institution -- not just the most farsighted union -- in America. "We are the architects of America's future," Reuther told the delegates at the union's 1947 convention, where his supporters won control of what was already the nation's leading union. |
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