Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Prisoners of Prosperity: Auto Workers in the
Postwar Period

3· Adversarialism and Beyond: The UAW in
Uncertain Times

4· Farewell to the Factory: The Buyout Experience

5· The "New Linden": Rhetoric and Reality

Appendix 1: Selected Data on Linden-GM
Production Workers, 1985

Appendix 2: Auto Workers' Hourly
Earnings, 1958-1992

Appendix 3: A Note on Methodology

Notes
Index

About the Author

Ruth Milkman is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II (1987).