[Amer H. Brooks discusses his career as a production worker and UAW member at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI].

Amer talks about coming to Lansing from Tennessee, being hired in May 1953 and being placed on the "cab line" to build convertibles. Amer describes a factory with few women and minorities and lots of hard work. He describes changing into work clothes right on the factory floor, the old time clock sy...

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Corporate Author: United Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History Project
Other Authors: Brooks, Amer H. (Interviewee), Howard, Doreen (Interviewer), Johnson, Linda (Interviewer), McQuaid, Cheryl (Interviewer), Rademacher, Doug (Interviewer), Fedewa, John (Interviewer)
Language:English
Published: [2005]
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MSU: Gift of UAW/GM.
Physical Description:1 electronic audio file (50 min., 16 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format: Audio Software

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