| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism. By Jonathan Cutler. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. xiv, 236 pp. Cloth, $59.50, ISBN 1-59213-246-4. Paper, $20.95, ISBN 1-59213247-2.)
Jonathan Cutler has written an excellent, tightly focused study of the internecine power struggles between the Walter Reuther–led United Auto Workers (UAW) and Local 600 at the River Rouge Ford complex outside Detroit. During an era of massive downsizing, from the late 1940s through the 1950s, thousands of workers throughout the UAW demanded that Reuther open a new front for a thirty-hour work week for forty hours pay (called 30-40).	1
Times had changed, however. Labor's growing bureaucracy had an agenda very different from the traditional dual demand for higher wages and shorter hours. Soon after the war, Reuther decided to concentrate on wages, displaying a new corporatist mentality that accepted management's argument that shorter hours conflicted with wage increases and other job benefits and abandoning the old confrontational syndicalist position that shorter hours drove up wages and protected against unemployment.	2
In 1950, Carl Stellato marshaled a coalition of 30-40 supporters at the Rouge, Communists, radicals, and African Americans, to challenge Reuther's new conciliatory approach. Challenging the Communist party's original hesitation as well, Stellato, more an opportunist than an ideologue, led a shorter hours insurgency within the UAW through most of the 1950s.	. . .

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