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The Negro Wage Earner
Excerpt for automobile plant employment, World War I and following, makes few references to Detroit and Michigan
Seniority in the Automobile Industry
pg. 27-28. Negroes.
Proportion of Colored Employees in Each Building, Rouge Plant, 10/5/37
Includes one page entitled "Colored Count in Tool Rooms"
Negro Labor in the Automobile Industry
Explores black worker's relation to management, to white labor, and to the union.
Negro Labor and Its Problems; a Research Memorandum Prepared under the Direction of Paul H. Norgren. Assistants: Lloyd H. Bailer, James Healy, Herbert L. Northup [and] Arnold M. Rose. (The Carnegie Myrdal Study: The Negro in America)
Chapter 10. The Negro Automobile Worker. P.513-653.Contains more statistical and biographical data than Myrdal's American Dilemma, for which it was prepared.
Labor and Automobiles
The Negro Worker. Traces Negro's employment experience in the auto plants.
Indignant Heart
Black auto worker, writing under pseudonym, tells his experiences in the auto industry and in the UAW.
If We Can't Solve the Problems of the Ghetto Here, God Help Our Country
Detroit's auto industry undertakes large scale training and hiring of the ghetto hard-core unemployed.
Henry Ford and the Negro People
Citing several examples, alleges jobs at Ford Motor Company for Negroes are largely undesirable, unhealthful, poorly paid, and used for coercive purposes.