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Degree

Master of Arts, University of Toledo, College of Arts and Sciences, 2010.

Abstract

This thesis reviews the community of Toledo during the Electric Auto-Lite Strike in 1934. The interpretation offered here is that the strike was not only a class struggle, but a community struggle as well. Some of the groups that made up the “worker community” were auto-parts workers, unemployed citizens, small business owners, and various ethnic groups. The main idea of the thesis is that through this struggle the Toledo worker community helped shape the eventual concrete conception of organized labor in the late 1930s.

Subject Headings

American history

Keywords

Toledo Auto-Lite Strike of 1934; community unionism; worker community

Committee / Advisors

Peter Linebaugh (Committee Chair)
Cynthia Ingham (Committee Member)
Todd Michney (Committee Member)

Pages

99p.

Document number: toledo1271444986
Permalink: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1271444986

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