Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950

Labor activist and attorney, Maurice Sugar played a key role in guiding the new United Auto Workers union in the 1930s. He orchestrated the injunction hearings on the 1937 Dodge Main strike and defended the legality of the sit-down tactic, wrote the union's constitution in 1939, and worked to nurture rank-and-file power.

This book traces Sugar's roots in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, through his resistance with Eugene V. Debs...