the Interviews: a time-line
late 19th century 1927------1944 1975--77 2013--Now
family histories
events
the
interviews listening to
the interviews
N=64
Detroit:
East
Side
| Frank Fagan (I) | Murray Body | UAW 2 | |
| Dick Frankensteen | Dodge Main |
UAW 3 |
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| Charles Watson | Dodge Main | UAW 3 | Ross, Zaremba, Marquart |
| Joe Adams | Dodge Main | UAW 3 | |
| Joe Ptazynski (I)g | Dodge Main | UAW 3 | |
| Earl Reynolds | Dodge Main | UAW 3 | |
| Jack Zeller (I) | Chrysler | UAW 7 | |
| Sam Sweet (III) | Plymouth | UAW 51 | |
| Francis Moore (III) | Hudson/ | UAW 154 | Tracy Doll OH |
| McDaniel | Packard |
UAW 190 | |
| Harry Kujawski | Packard | UAW 190 | |
| Eddie Dvornik | Packard | UAW 190 | |
| Bill Mazey (III) | Briggs |
UAW 212 | |
| Ernie Mazey (III) | all around |
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| Irwin Bauer (III) | Budd Wheel | UAW 306 | |
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Paul Silver (I) |
Det. Steel Prods |
UAW 351 |
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| Bill Jenkins | Chrysler H.P. |
UAW 490 |
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| Leonard Klue | Michigan Steel Tube |
UAW 238 |
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| Tony Podorsek (III) |
body-in-white super. |
3 + 1 tel. |
Detroit: West Side
| W John & Minnie Anderson (I) |
Fleetwood |
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| Irene Marinovich (I) |
Ternstedt |
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| Dorosh (Silver/I) |
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| CP Petrakovitz (II) |
CP east side dist org |
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| *Joe Jeffries (II) |
Great Lakes Steel |
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| *Al Rightly (III) |
Studebaker |
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| Mary Davis |
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| CP W Stanley Novak |
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| Blain Marrin |
Tool & Die Local 157 |
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| Ed Lock |
Ford 600 |
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| Percy Llewelyn |
Ford 600 |
Henry Kruas
James Lindahl
Emil L. Mazey (WWII)
Flint and Pontiac
| Norman Bully | Buick 599 |
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| Larry Jones | Chevrolet 659 |
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| Bill Genski | Fisher Body #1 581 |
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| Cliff Williams | Yellow Cab |
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| Saul Wellman |
| Jim Peters |
Chrysler line |
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| Oscar Oden |
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| George Bidinger (I) |
Large presses |
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| Bob Brenner (II) |
Tool and Die |
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| Agnes Baransky |
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| John Anderson (III) |
Local 155 |
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| Betty Jaskiewsky (I) |
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| Bill & Helen Moore (I) |
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| ____ Dinkle (I) |
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| _____ Tiedermann (I) |
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| Almdale/Newby (II) |
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| Earl Pollntz (II) |
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| Barney Kluk (II) |
Tool & Die |
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| ___ Perry (II) |
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| Art Lamb (II) |
Works Manager |
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| Agnes Morehouse (III) |
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| Lillian _____ (III) |
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| Ed Tyll (III) |
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| Jim Holbrook (III) |
Shipping & Recieving |
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| Louis Voletti |
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| Lawrence Voletti |
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| Willie Jones |
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| Chester Podgorski |
Assembly |
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| Lillian Rowling |
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| Garrett |
10-18-76 |
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| ____ Sundstrom |
1-12-76 |
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| Pete Olshove |
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| Joe Block |
2-4-76 |
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| ____ Skinner |
2-4-77 |
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| Lotte Klos |
2-4-76 |
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| Levi Nelson |
10-6-76 |
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| Herman Burt |
1-14-77 |
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| William Hintz |
2-21-77; 1-10-77 |
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| ____ Wainwright |
9-5-75--6-11-77 |
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| George Borovich |
11-4-75 |
N=38 |
Mich Steel Tube (Emergence)
Jim Peters
I already know somer of the things that emerge: Bill Jenkins vignette about his relation to the Bulgarian group
Bully's charaterization of CPs, SPs, and PPs; his characterization of cultural differences between immigrants and anglos; his account of the rise of the epigones
FDR as charismatic aura: non-Cartesian approach: individuals do not "believe" in FDR; FDR is the projection of a collective identity, related to the role of President but not reducible to it
Michael Mann on continuum
E-->ND superorganism/trajectory
observations (Jenkins on Bulgarians;
the problem of BWP/CP: UAW 410 and Flint; Mortimer; Bully and Jones on CPs in Flint (Fine, Sit-down); Bernie and Mae; Irene Marinovich; Genski; James Lindahl Papers; Packard rept. (McDaniel, Lindahl); Reuther bio.;
Oppenheimer, Mortimer, Reuther, Hillman biographies: integrate these into the time-line
1. there are many more such biographies that could be added, but already there is a sufficient number such that we can speak of each as a moment in the unfolding of the superorganism/vector: historical trajectory of the Enlightement to the New Deal (E⇒ND)
habitus/historical trajectory E⇒ND
Now, the historical-developmental trajectory E⇒ND includes the habitus/milieu of Progressivism, thus the TS, the biography of Robert Oppenheimer
Flint and Pontiac +
Frank Pinchon, chmn ch stew
Helene Gage, ch stew womens
J K McDaniel ch stew RD
Roland Lux, ch stew AN
John Danta, ch stew XSB
Hymie Schuster, ch stew SDE
James Lambert, ch stew LR
Transform all tapes to digital files, and only then listen to them (this much more efficient, and doesn't risk damaging forty year old cassette tapes)
Do not transcribe, except in rare segments (Quotes to be embedded in narrative synlopsis); this is too time-consuming.
Instead, listen to the interviews and provide a narrative synopsis.
Already I know that certain---
The Interviews are a set of dialogic unfoldings that form a lens through which to examine the ontologies and events, the transformations and reactions, that are subsumed under the term unionization. The factories, meeting halls, and neighborhoods of southeastern Michigan are laboratories in which to investigate the play of forces: first, the deep structures, the genetic ontologies(the principles of the production of practices) that dominate the manifold areas of human activity; and second, the irruption of forces that interrupt the inner logics of an entirely different kind, referred to variously as the will to power but also [Bourdieu]; and third, the externals: FDR mystique; role of KE administrators in Dodge, Midland, etc.
examples of this below: