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From 'Chrysler Girls' To 'Dodge Boys': The Emergence Of Women In Windsor's Automotive Industry, 1964-1976, Brandi Lyn Lucier Jan 2001

From 'Chrysler Girls' To 'Dodge Boys': The Emergence Of Women In Windsor's Automotive Industry, 1964-1976, Brandi Lyn Lucier

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From 'Chrysler Girls' to 'Dodge Boys': The Emergence of Women in Windsor's Automotive Industry, 1964-1976 is a study of female auto workers' lack of equality in seniority at the Windsor Spring plant, a division of Chrysler Canada. While a small number of women worked in Chrysler's, Windsor, Ontario, parts plants during the 1930s and 1940s, few women worked in passenger car and truck assembly plants because collective agreements between the UAW and the auto manufacturer upheld sex-based job classifications and seniority lists which ultimately limited women's participation in the plants. Based on the idea that women were financial dependents and …

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Ford Graphic. Ford Golden Jubilee, 1904-1954, Ford Motor Company Of Canada Jan 1954

Ford Graphic. Ford Golden Jubilee, 1904-1954, Ford Motor Company Of Canada

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

Vol. 7: no. 15 (1954: Aug. 17); 50 years of progress; history of the Ford Motor Company of Canada; a newspaper for the employees of Ford Motor Company Of Canada Limited

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Fifty Years Forward With Ford, Ford Motor Company Jan 1953

Fifty Years Forward With Ford, Ford Motor Company

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

50 year retrospective of the Ford Motor Company from 1903-1953.

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Ford Graphic. Royal Visit To Ford, Monday, October 15, 1951, Ford Motor Company Of Canada Jan 1951

Ford Graphic. Royal Visit To Ford, Monday, October 15, 1951, Ford Motor Company Of Canada

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

Souvenir Edition: October 15th, 1951; Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit Ford Motor Company of Canada

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Ford News, November 1919, Ford Motor Company Of Canada Jan 1919

Ford News, November 1919, Ford Motor Company Of Canada

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

News about Ford Motor Company of Canada.

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