| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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The Flint Sit-Down Strike Audio Gallery, http://www.historicalvoices.org/flint/. Designed and hosted by Matrix at Michigan State University. Audiovisual content provided by the University of Michigan-Flint and the Walter P. Reuther Library, Detroit, Mich. Reviewed March 1–20, 2006.

On December 30, 1936, General Motors (GM) workers in Flint, Michigan, sat down at their jobs. They stayed in the plants until a settlement was reached on February 11, 1937. The forty-four day strike was a victory for the United Auto Workers (UAW), a new industrial union that won the right to organize and represent employees of the largest auto company and one of the largest private employers in the United States. The GM sit-down strike had enormous significance for the history of labor, business, and the state. It also marked a turning point in UAW history and the history of working people in modern America.

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